Denzel Washington in "Final Negotiations" to Star in Ridley Scott's 'Gladiator' Sequel

16 years after Denzel Washington starred in Ridley Scott's popular crime drama American Gangster, the renowned actor is in "final negotiations" to co-star in the esteemed director's Gladiator sequel, according to sources via Deadline.The Paramount film will follow Scott's Oscar-winning 2000 flagship movie, which centered on a former general named Maximus Decimus Meridius, played by Russell Crowe, who had no choice but to become a gladiator under the jurisdiction of Joaquin Phoenix's Commodus, th...