Gladiator II is headed to theaters, the place Paul Mescal will battle within the historic Colosseum as a vengeful gladiator. The newest action-packed trailer for Ridley Scott’s sequel dropped on Monday.
Mescal performs a grown-up Lucius Verus II, a nephew to emperor Commodus from the unique movie, performed by Joaquin Phoenix. After being pressured into slavery, Lucius returns to Rome to battle not as a ruler, however as a gladiator out for revenge and energy over twenty years after the unique Gladiator epic.
“You’ve one thing in you, rage. By no means let it go,” Macrinus, a rich energy dealer and arms supplier performed by Denzel Washington, tells Lucius as he brings him into his steady of gladiators for battle within the combating ring.
However Lucius additionally has ambitions for energy and revenge, as he works his method up the ranks of gladiatorial fighters. “Rome has taken the whole lot from me. However I’ll have my vengeance,” he tells a cautious Macrinus at one level within the trailer after insisting he needs the pinnacle of Roman Normal Marcus Acacius, performed by Pedro Pascal, who earlier pressured him into slavery.
“I don’t combat for energy. I combat to free Rome from males like them,” Lucius finally declares as Macrinus, Marcus Acacius and others who rule Rome with an iron fist look on from an enormous Coliseum set in-built Malta.
Gladiator II set for a tentpole launch by Paramount Photos at Thanksgiving additionally comes as director Scott is reportedly engaged on concepts for a Gladiator 3 down the highway.
The primary trailer racked up 215 million world cross-platform views in only a few days.
Gladiator II opens Nov. 22 and arrives over 20 years after Scott’s Gladiator, which gained 5 Oscars, together with greatest image and greatest actor for Russell Crowe. Joseph Quinn and Connie Nielsen additionally star within the new movie.