Gladiator II
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This article contains spoilers for Gladiator II.
However, it avoids revealing his real name.
What Is Macrinus' Real Name?
Owing to this, it would be fair to call the movie fictional.
Marcus Opellius Macrinus was a Roman emperor who reigned supreme from April 217 to June 218.
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However, long before he became the emperor, he served as Emperor Caracalla’s praetorian prefect.
He despised the late emperor and wanted to watch the Roman Republic crumble before his eyes.
Gladiator 2 is the follow-up to Ridley Scott’s award-winning film Gladiator from 2000. Scott returns to direct the sequel, with Paul Mescal staring as Lucius, alongside Denzel Washington and Joseph Quinn as the villain Emperor Geta. Gladiator 2 had been stuck in development hell for years before a script written by David Scarpa finally moved forward.
