Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II returns to the Colosseum, with Paul Mescal as Lucius in a new still from the film. But the director once vowed not to do so.
The continuation of the saga does not begin in Rome, but two decades after the events of the first “Gladiator” in 2000. Lucius, now an adult, lives with his wife and child in Numidia on the coast of North Africa. After the Roman invasion, he was enslaved and, like Maximus, became a gladiator in Rome’s most violent arena.
“Can I go back to Rome? Can I go to the Colosseum again? Because we did it to Russell. And the answer is: it’s better to be in the Colosseum because the film is called Gladiator. I don’t know how you can do that without going to the Colosseum again, otherwise there’s no point,” the director told Total Film magazine.
This isn’t the only way Gladiator 2 repeats history, as Scott wants to remind audiences that this isn’t a series of individual stories – it actually happened. “People think history is something that didn’t happen. By God, it repeated itself over and over again… I tried to do a little bit to bring this history back to reality and not fantasy.”
“Gladiator II” will be released in Ukrainian cinemas on November 14. The film implements some of the director’s ideas that he failed to achieve in his classic 24 years ago.
Sources: Total Film, GamesRadar
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