Rome must fall in the first Gladiator II trailer

After 24 years, Ridley Scott is backmost with a follow-up to Gladiator, and the sequel’s caller trailer promises bread, circuses, and buckets of blood.

Set decades aft the events of the archetypal film, Gladiator II will archer a caller fable astir however a now-grown Lucius Verus (Paul Mescal) becomes an enslaved gladiator, contempt his being the Roman empire’s erstwhile heir. Though Lucius tin vividly callback immoderate moments from his childhood, his memories of his parent Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) look to person faded by the clip he’s crossed paths with powerfulness broker Macrinus (Denzel Washington).

As a antheral who deals successful weapons and warriors, Macrinus tin spot large imaginable successful Lucius arsenic helium watches him instrumentality connected a rhino successful the Coliseum. But arsenic skilled arsenic Lucius is astatine sidesplitting animals, what helium genuinely wants is to instrumentality down Rome itself — oregon astatine slightest its caller leaders, Emperor Geta (Joseph Quinn), Emperor Caracalla (Fred Hechinger), and General Marcus Acacius (Pedro Pascal).

Between the sand-throwing, roaring crowds, and knock-down, drag-out battles, the trailer makes Gladiator II look similar precisely what fans of the archetypal movie person been yearning for. And it’s going to beryllium precise absorbing to spot the movie duke it retired for box-office supremacy against Wicked when Gladiator II hits theaters connected November 22nd.