Gladiator II: Paul Mescal goes wild in the new trailer

And blood-drunk baboons enter the arena!

J-L (50 in French) before being able to attend what is shaping up to be one of the great entertainments of the year. After having participated in the History of the Seventh Art with Gladiator, at the beginning of the millennium, Ridley Scott continues to build cinema. In Gladiator II, More than twenty-four years later, he takes everything that made his epic a success and increases it tenfold. Entertainment, you say?

After a first trailer that caused a real earthquake on the web last July, the new visual of the 2.0 epic is a real eye-opener with even more heroic fights! As a bonus: the rabid baboons with sharp teeth, teased at CinemaCon, are revealed.

“It is an art to choose gladiators,” sum in opening Macrinus, the rich merchant played by Denzel Washington. He supplies the Roman armies with slaves, warriors, and other human goods. He will bring Lucius (Paul Mescal), son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) in the footsteps of his father, General Maximus, the hero of the first Gladiator. Lucius' revenge is revealed step by step in this new trailer: from the loss of his loved one, to his capture in Numidia by General Marcus Acacius, played by Pedro Pascal.

At the end of the chain, the dismissal of the two-headed Roman regime led by the Emperors Caracalla and Geta (Fred Hechinger, Joseph Quinn), according to the desire of the character played by Washington who wants to fight his way to the throne with the help of his gladiator. But the latter warns him:

“I will not be your instrument in this life, as in the next.”

For him, like the one who was his father, everything will be played out in the arena, where he will face more than human beasts; ferocious and dangerous animals – between rhinoceroses, sharks and baboons, here is a beautiful and fearsome trinity.

Ridley Scott considers Gladiator II to be one of his best films

Note that “No Church in the Wild” by Kanye West and Jay-Z, which punctuated the first trailer, has given way to epic music this time. Some Internet users criticized the use of the rap song, which did not correspond to the image of the Roman Empire that they have. Message received by the teams who calmed things down.

Gladiator II will be released in theaters on November 13.