Watch: Russell Crowe visits Malta's Gladiator set after teasing fans on Twitter

On Saturday morning, Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe teased his Maltese fans that he would go to Fort Ricasoli at 3.30pm through a tweet many mistook as a joke.  Video: Matthew Mirabelli And true to his word, Crowe was spotted cycling inside the fort which played host to the blockbuster film Gladiator, which won him his first of three Best Actor Oscars in 2000. Enter Maximus. Photo: Matthew Mirabelli Crowe is currently in Malta with a team filming Prizefighter, a biopic about 19th-century pugilist Jem Belcher.  Crowe was seen cycling around the historical fort on a mountain bicycle before posing for pictures for Times of Malta. The actor, who appeared to have ditched his 'bad boy' image, was accompanied by film commissioner Johann Grech, before meeting some fans who showed up on site. "It's a very strange thing to realise that I hadn't been back when I should have... I think Malta's amazing as a place to set stories. There's a thousand stories in every bay here," he said. Crowe shot Ridley Scott's Gladiator in Malta in 1999. Photo: Matthew Mirabelli The actor posing with a fan. Photo: Matthew Mirabelli Fort Ricasoli, the large fortification in Kalkara built between 1670 and...