GLADIATOR II
FIRST TRAILER FOR THE EPIC SEQUEL
Vanity Fair showed us the first images last week and today we have the first trailer for GLADIATOR II which stars Paul Mescal in the lead role of Lucius Verus alongside Pedro Pascal as Marcus Acacius,
and 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.
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| Gladiator II will arrive this November to cinemas |
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.
