Logan signs as scribe for 'Gladiator 2' - Mon Sep 23, 3:46 AM ET By Chris Gardner

LOS ANGELES (The Hollywood Reporter) --- A hero will rise -- again. DreamWorks Pictures/Universal Pictures are moving forward with a sequel to "Gladiator," which won the best picture Oscar last year, hiring scribe John Logan to pen a follow-up to the Ridley Scott-helmed epic starring Russell Crowe as Gen. Maximus Decimus Meridus.

--It better not star Russell Crowe, a prequal maybe?