GLADIATOR II
FIRST IMAGES FROM THE EPIC SEQUEL
Vanity Fair has decided to spoil us this Monday and launch the beginning of the new week with first highly anticipated images from GLADIATOR II 
which give us the exclusive first look at Paul Mescal in the lead role of Lucius Verus alongside Pedro Pascal as Marcus Acacius, with new pictures also
giving us a glimpse at Connie Nielsen who returns to the story that will continue November 22nd when the film hits cinemas ahead of the festive
season.Two relatively young brothers rule the vast empire, with Fred Hechinger as Emperor Caracalla and Joseph Quinn as Emperor Geta.
which give us the exclusive first look at Paul Mescal in the lead role of Lucius Verus alongside Pedro Pascal as Marcus Acacius, with new pictures also
giving us a glimpse at Connie Nielsen who returns to the story that will continue November 22nd when the film hits cinemas ahead of the festive  |
| Paul Mescal got some muscles for the role of Lucius |
THE STORY OF GLADIATOR II
continues decades after the first movie in which Russell Crowe played his father, now Lucius has come of age and has gotten far away from his mother, as Variety reveals. While he was still a child, Lucilla sent him to the northern coast of Africa, to a region called Numidia that was (at that point) just outside the reach of the Roman
Empire. He never fully
understood why, and as he grew stronger, so did his resentment even if
his mother’s reasons had been pure. As Gladiator II begins, 
Mescal’s
Lucius, according to Variety, has a wife and child, and lives a
relatively peaceful life with them until conquerors from his homeland
begin to 
encroach. He’s taken root in a seacoast town in Numidia. He’s a
blue-eyed, fair-skinned man with red hair, and he couldn’t be more
different from the
inhabitants, director Ridley Scott reveals. It’s one
of the last surviving civilizations, as the Romans begin to descend in
North Africa and take it all 
over. Leading that charge is Pedro Pascal’s
Marcus Acacius, a Roman general said to have trained as a junior
officer under Crowe’s character, although he
wasn’t seen in the first
movie. Lucius, once the grandson of the emperor of Rome, finds himself a
prisoner of it. But when he gets to Rome as a prisoner 
and has a first
round in the arena, he sees his mother—to his shock. He doesn’t know
whether she’s alive or not. And she’s now with the general who
he came
face-to-face with on the wall in Numidia. Lucilla doesn’t recognize the
battered creature in the Colosseum as her son, and has no idea about the
bloody history between him and the man she loves.
continues decades after the first movie in which Russell Crowe played his father, now Lucius has come of age and has gotten far away from his mother, as Variety reveals. While he was still a child, Lucilla sent him to the northern coast of Africa, to a region called Numidia that was (at that point) just outside the reach of the Roman
Empire. He never fully
understood why, and as he grew stronger, so did his resentment even if
his mother’s reasons had been pure. As Gladiator II begins, 
Mescal’s
Lucius, according to Variety, has a wife and child, and lives a
relatively peaceful life with them until conquerors from his homeland
begin to 
encroach. He’s taken root in a seacoast town in Numidia. He’s a
blue-eyed, fair-skinned man with red hair, and he couldn’t be more
different from the
inhabitants, director Ridley Scott reveals. It’s one
of the last surviving civilizations, as the Romans begin to descend in
North Africa and take it all 
over. Leading that charge is Pedro Pascal’s
Marcus Acacius, a Roman general said to have trained as a junior
officer under Crowe’s character, although he
wasn’t seen in the first
movie. Lucius, once the grandson of the emperor of Rome, finds himself a
prisoner of it. But when he gets to Rome as a prisoner 
and has a first
round in the arena, he sees his mother—to his shock. He doesn’t know
whether she’s alive or not. And she’s now with the general who
he came
face-to-face with on the wall in Numidia. Lucilla doesn’t recognize the
battered creature in the Colosseum as her son, and has no idea about the
bloody history between him and the man she loves.
First images look quite promising on this one. Something to look forward to this fall.
ReplyDeleteI do love both Mescal and Quinn, but cannot stand Pedro and Denzel, so I cannot say I am overly excited, but will give it a go probably.
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