BACK TO THE COLOSSEUM GLADIATOR II

Ridley Scott se encarga de la secuela de su propio gran éxito, protagonizada por el irlandés Paul Mescal como el esclavo que tratará de liberarse luchando en el Coliseo.

by ELENA LIVORNI

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator became a box-office1 sensation and one of the most celebrated films of 2000. It won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for New Zealander Russell Crowe as the Roman general-turned-gladiator Maximus Decimus Meridius. Nearly a quarter of a century later, the saga continues with a highly-anticipated sequel that has been in development since at least 2003. THE PLOT The new story picks up with Lucius, son of Rome’s former emperor Lucius Verus I and grandson of Marcus Aurelius. Having lost touch with his mother, Lucius leads a peaceful life with his family in Numidia, an ancient kingdom on the north coast of Africa the boundaries2 of which corresponded roughly to those of modern western Tunisia and eastern Algeria. That is until Roman soldiers, commanded…

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