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, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes of the man who will feel his revenge.
Film will be demonstrated in remastered 4K format and Director's Cut (15 minutes longer than original).
In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to the throne, Maximus is set to be executed. He escapes, but is captured by slave traders. Renamed Spaniard and forced to become a gladiator, Maximus must battle to the death with other men for the amusement of paying audiences.
In 120 A.D. Flavius Aquila led 5,000 elite Roman soldiers on a mission beyond the edge of the known world – to highlands of Caledonia (modern days Scotland). They were never seen again… 20 years later the commander’s son Mark Aquila (Channing Tatum) makes promise to himself to solve out the mystery of their disappearance and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth, by finding lost legion's golden emblem – the Eagle. Hearing a rumor that the Eagle has been seen in a tribal temple in the far north of Caledonia, Marcus sets out to the dangerous journey. Saving the life of a young Caledonian, Esca (Jamie Bell), tossed like bait in a gladiatorial contest, Marcus takes the grateful but surly fellow as his slave and, despite warnings that “No Roman could survive across the Hadrian's Wall”, ventures beyond the edge of the known world on a dangerous and obsessive quest to confront the savage tribes and retrieve the Eagle of the Ninth.
Casting: Channing Tatum, Mark Strong, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland, Denis O'Hare
Directed by: Kevin MacDonald