We also have guides to the best movies on Netflix ... a general in the Roman army who has the favor of the emperor, Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris). So much so, that Marcus chooses Maximus ...
It is the same movie, slightly tweaked ... dream of Rome” that he learned about at the knee of his grandpa, Marcus Aurelius.
Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus ...
Rome, circa 209 A.D. Sixteen years after the demise of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000), the Roman Empire is now ruled by the tyrannical Emperors Caracalla ...