set 20-25 years after the original and centered around Commodus nephew Lucius. Now, the original movie made rather enormous changes compared to our timeline and I imagine the POD fallout from the events in the first movie would be even more monumental, which I have tried to explore. To this effect, and for reference, I will post first a historical timeline of the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. Then the next post will discuss the PODs in Gladiator and those that can be inferred in its back story. Finally, I will post a proposed alternate timeline for the period 161-200 AD, when we could infer that the new movie will be set.