Are you not amused? We guarantee that after watching the new Gladiator II trailer, you will be. Ridley Scott is making a return trip to Rome more than twenty years after Russell Crowe’s Maximus took the stage in his critically acclaimed historical drama that became an instant classic. Paul Mescal, star of Aftersun and All of Us Strangers, will play Lucius, son of Connie Nielsen’s Lucilla from the first movie, in the new film. Inhale deeply, then watch the trailer right now:
Heave heave. Remaining with us? That’s three minutes of pure gladiatorial suspense, proving that Scott can still make a really epic film at eighty-six years old. The opening scene has a voiceover from Mescal’s Lucius and a flashback to the first film.