How much gold will you give me for the secret of infinite riches? Then the said the foremost and most foolish: it is nothing but here's a hundred thousand pounds. I obliged and whispered in his ear this secret: A SUCKER IS BORN EVERY MINUTE.
Gladiator 2 nearly went completely off the rails. Nick Cave wrote a sequel where Maximus is resurrected and ordered by the gods to kill a Christ-like figure. Russell Crowe’s response?
“Don’t like it, mate.”