‘Gladiator 2’ Debuts Epic Trailer at CinemaCon: Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington Bring Bloodshed, Brutality Back to the Colosseum
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor There was something fitting about the setting. Paramount Pictures unveiled the first footage from “Gladiator II” on the stage of The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, a hotel that reimagines Ancient Rome in all its decadent splendor, albeit with a few more slot machines.
Ridley Scott seems to be offering a bloodier version of that distant age, one that finds Paul Mescal enter the arena as a nobleman who has renounced his privilege.
Based on the trailer that Scott brought to Las Vegas to share with cinema owners, “Gladiator 2” recaptures the first film’s epic sprawl and shattering action sequences.
One that saw Mescal face off against a charging rhino and a horde of vicious baboons. There were also naval bombardments, political intrigue aplenty and a pair of diabolical emperors who seem even crazier than Joaquin Phoenix’s spiteful monarch.
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