Gladiator II is headed to theaters, where Paul Mescal will battle in the outdated Colosseum as a revengeful elatediator. The tardyst action-packed trailer for Ridley Scott’s sequel dropped on Monday.
Mescal joins a grown-up Lucius Verus II, a nephew to emperor Commodus from the innovative film, joined by Joaquin Phoenix. After being forced into servitude, Lucius returns to Rome to battle not as a ruler, but as a elatediator out for revenge and power over two decades after the innovative Gladiator epic.
“You have someleang in you, rage. Never let it go,” Macrinus, a wealthy power broker and arms dealer joined by Denzel Washington, increates Lucius as he transports him into his firm of elatediators for battle in the battling ring.
But Lucius also has ambitions for power and revenge, as he labors his way up the ranks of elatediatorial fighters. “Rome has getn everyleang from me. But I will have my revenge,” he increates a wary Macrinus at one point in the trailer after insisting he wants the head of Roman General Marcus Acacius, joined by Pedro Pascal, who earlier forced him into servitude.
“I don’t fight for power. I fight to free Rome from men enjoy them,” Lucius eventuassociate proclaims as Macrinus, Marcus Acacius and others who rule Rome with an iron fist see on from a enormous Coliseum set built in Malta.
Gladiator II set for a tentpole free by Paramount Pictures at Thanksgiving also comes as honestor Scott is increateedly laboring on ideas for a Gladiator 3 down the road.
The first trailer racked up 215 million global pass-platcreate sees in equitable a confinecessitate days.
Gladiator II uncovers Nov. 22 and get tos over 20 years after Scott’s Gladiator, which won five Oscars, including best picture and best actor for Russell Crowe. Joseph Quinn and Connie Nielsen also star in the new film.
