Gladiator II: Lucius and Maximus, same fight?

The screenwriter explains how the new hero played by Paul Mescal will be different from his father… but not that much.

20 years after seeing his father fight in the heart of the Coliseum, he will in turn descend into the arena. In Gladiator IILucius will take over from Maximus, and Paul Mescal the succession of Russell Crowe. Two warriors linked by blood, but not by the same history. But a little bit all the same, as the screenwriter explains. David Scarpa to Empire.

The one who wrote Gladiator II For Ridley Scott tells how Lucius was imagined, both the equal and the opposite of Maximus: “The idea was to completely reverse the first film“, Scarpa explains.

“The first film begins with Maximus, a Roman general fighting a barbarian army. So we begin Gladiator II by showing this young man who has joined a barbarian army and who is fighting the Romans. He feels the same anger and disgust towards Rome as Maximus at the end of the film. So we are staging echoes of the same man, but who is also more or less his opposite…”

Gladiator II will be released in theaters on November 13.