The film stars Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington.
Gladiator 2 hits theaters on November 21.
Ridley Scott He directed some epic battle scenes in his films, from the Battle of Kerak in Kingdom of Heaven from 2005 until the Battle of Austerlitz in Napoleon of 2023. But its next sequel to Gladiator features an action sequence that is bigger than anything he has done in the past, according to the legendary filmmaker.
“We started the movie with probably the Biggest action sequence I’ve ever done“Scott told Empire in a recent interview. “Probably bigger than anything in ‘Napoleon.’”
What is Gladiator 2 about?
Gladiator 2 stars Paul Mescal as Lucius, son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) and nephew of Commodus, the antagonist of the original film played by Joaquin Phoenix. Set years after Gladiator (2000), the sequel shows Lucius living as a young adult in the Numidia region of North Africa, where he was sent by his mother as a child. Events lead Lucius back to Rome as a gladiator, where he makes new enemies and reunites with his mother.
While Scott didn’t share too many details about the opening action sequence in Gladiator 2, he did tease a moment where Lucius (Mescal) faces off against a rhino in the Colosseum.
“Computerization and artificial intelligence are two elements that must be accepted”“I can have a computer read every molecule and every wrinkle of a rhino and then cut it into a thick piece of plastic, exactly like a rhino’s body, which then conforms to the shape of a skeleton,” Scott said of creating the computer-generated rhino for the scene.
He added: “I have a thing that can go 60 kilometres an hour, spin in place, shake its head and grunt. A two-ton rhino with a man on its back! I mean, it’s so much fun.”
Gladiator 2 hits theaters on November 21.
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