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This week in Las Vegas the first footage for Gladiator 2 screened at CinemaCon to those lucky enough to attend the industry event.<\/p>\n
Sir Ridley Scott, who returned to direct the sequel, teased in a video: \u201cIt is possibly even more extraordinary than the first.\u201d<\/p>\n
Set 20 years after Russell Crowe\u2019s Oscar-winning original, Paul Mescal stars as a nobleman who renounces his status to become a gladiator, having been inspired by the late Maximus.<\/p>\n
His character Lucius, grown up from the first movie, fights man-eating monkeys, sharks and a rhino in the Colosseum.<\/p>\n
There was even a moment when the arena was filled with water for \u201can epic ship battle\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mescal\u2019s gladiator pays tribute to Maximus: \u201cI remember that day. I never forgot it. That a slave could take revenge against an emperor. That a slave could get justice in the arena.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Pedro Pascal plays a Roman general who is forced to become a gladiator after being against sending young men to war. Additionally, Denzel Washington portrays a character who is manipulating Mescal\u2019s gladiator into starting a revolution. At one point he says: \u201cThe only truth in Rome is the law of the strongest.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The film also sees the return of Connie Nielsen as Lucilla, the mother of Lucius, with Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger joining the cast as co-emperors Caracalla and Geta; bringing the action to the turn of third century AD.<\/p>\n
Still no word on when the first trailer heads online just yet.<\/p>\n
Gladiator II hits cinemas on November 22, 2024.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] This week in Las Vegas the first footage for Gladiator 2 screened at CinemaCon to those lucky enough to attend the industry event. Sir Ridley Scott, who returned to direct the sequel, teased in a video: \u201cIt is possibly even more extraordinary than the first.\u201d Set 20 years after Russell Crowe\u2019s Oscar-winning original, Paul …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[765],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}