The primary trailer for one of many autumn’s most hotly anticipated movies has arrived. Gladiator II, Ridley Scott’s sequel to his 2000 Oscar-conquering epic, is due in cinemas in November, however the promotional reel gives the primary look correct at Paul Mescal, who has stepped into Russell Crowe’s sandals.
Mescal performs Lucius, son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) and the late Lucius Verus, who remembers watching the doomed heroics of Crowe’s Maximus within the first film. Impressed by his braveness, the enslaved Lucius vows to defeat new preening emperors Caracalla (Joseph Quinn) and Geta (Fred Hechinger).
In his approach – or, presumably, giving him a little bit of a leg-up – are Denzel Washington’s slave proprietor and energy dealer, Macrinus, who Scott has described as “fairly fucking merciless” to the sector fighters, in addition to Pedro Pascal’s Roman basic, Marcus Acacius.
Pascal has described his character as “a really, excellent basic, which may imply an excellent killer”; skilled beneath Maximus, his push to invade north Africa places him firmly within the crosshairs of Lucius, who Macrinus identifies as being so filled with animus that “rage is your present”.
Mescal bulked up significantly for the function, incomes the nickname “Brick Wall Paul”, courtesy of Pascal. “He obtained so robust,” Pascal stated of his co-star. “I might reasonably be thrown from a constructing than should battle him once more.”
Additionally that includes within the trailer are transient glimpses of Tim McInnerny and a returning Derek Jacobi, tons and plenty of swords, arrows, ships, crowds, water, shouting and a large bloodstained rhinoceros Lucius should defeat.
The trailer additionally gives a preview of the stirring soundtrack – once more composed by Hans Zimmer, in addition to a snatch of a transforming of No Church within the Wild by Kanye West and Jay Z, that includes the apposite lyrics: “Tears on the mausoleum flooring / Blood stains the Colosseum doorways.”
Filming started final June however was interrupted by the actors’ strike within the US, earlier than resuming in December and ending in January, some transient reshoots final month in Sussex however.
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The worldwide launch date is 22 November; it shares this date with the film of the musical Depraved, which has moved ahead every week to keep away from competitors with Moana 2.
The potential double invoice has led many to foretell one other Barbenheimer advertising and marketing drive, although a call on the portmanteau identify – Wickiator or Gladicked – seems pending.
