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  'Gladiator' at 20: Creator David Franzoni on the film's journey from 'Easy Rider' homage to Oscar hit (exclusive)

  The cast and crew of Ridley Scott's epic reveal how a backpacking trip and 'Easy Rider' inspired the film and why people thought they were making 'Conan 3'.

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  Gladiator at 20: 20 things you might not know about the Ridley Scott classic

  Ridley Scott’s masterpiece Gladiator turns 20 today, but even on its release, it felt like some lost treasure from another era – an epic in an age of lightweights.It had the big name director, the heft – coming in at just under three hours – and the spectacle set-pieces of a golden age release like Sparticus or Ben Hur. It made a star of Russell Crowe, but cast him alongside old school British heavyweights, with 60's titans Richard Harris and Oliver Reed both cast.

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  Ridley Scott says Oliver Reed ‘dropped down dead’ after challenging sailors to drinking match while filming Gladiator

  Ridley Scott has recalled the death of actor Oliver Reed during the making of Gladiator, remarking that he “dropped down dead on the floor of a pub”.Reed died midway through production on the Russell Crowe epic, which was released 20 years ago, forcing Scott to finish his scenes by recreating him with CGI.

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  Actors who were brought back from the dead and how it was done

  Hollywood producers have used ingenious ways to recreate sadly departed actors on screen.

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  11 and a half years a slave to Guardian list of ‘1000 films to see before you die’

  The 1967 Michael Winner film I’ll Never Forget What’s ’Is Name, featuring Oliver Reed and Marianne Faithfull. On Friday I finished it with a Michael Winner film that seemed to be a poor excuse for lots of gratuitous shots of women in bikinis.

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  Desert Island Discs: the 45 best guests

  Desert Island Discs: the 45 best guests

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  Don’t think this is the end of Kevin Spacey – if history teaches us anything, it’s that Hollywood forgives

  Well, if anyone can do it, it’s Ridley Scott, 79, who once cobbled together a Best Picture winner in Gladiator despite the death halfway through the shoot of Oliver Reed, a crucial foil to Russell Crowe’s title character. The decision to bin Kevin Spacey from the J Paul Getty thriller All the Money in the World and replace him with Christopher Plummer is Scott’s most cunning move yet.

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  Anti-Baftas: the 22 worst British films of all time

  What “the kids” really wanted was a question asked by many film producers in the early 1960s, hoping to cash in on the newly lucrative teen market. Surely a happening interpretation of Gilbert and Sullivan would have the youth flocking to their local Odeons, especially if it were helmed by that groovy up-and-comer Michael Winner? The result was one of the great nightmares of British cinema – a twist version of The Mikado that, according to Winner himself, was “absolute nonsense, shot in four w

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  'Liz Taylor asked where we could talk. I said: In bed' - broadcaster Ian Robertson has seen it all, but he says nothing beats the Six Nations

  This will be the 45th year that Ian Robertson has covered the Six and before that the Five Nations for BBC Radio. It is a longevity which, he admits, is quite a surprise given what happened to him early in his career.

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  Ice Cube to play Fagin in Disney's planned Oliver Twist movie

  Ice Cube is being lined up to play the role of Fagin in a new version of Charles Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist’ coming from Disney. The movie will be a ‘contemporary’ remake of the source material, according to reports, with Thomas Kail in the director’s chair, the helmsman of his Broadway show ‘Hamilton’. – Seth Rogen animation Sausage Party hungry for Oscar glory – Eddie Redmayne reveals he auditioned for Voldemort – Moff Tarkin confirmed for Star Wars: Rogue One return? Former NWA star Cube is also

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