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During his career, Ridley Scott has repeatedly demonstrated his talent for staging epic fights and battles. Most recently, it is in Napoleon that the magician of cinema has worked. From the Russian campaign to the famous battle of Austerlitz, the military genius of the French Emperor was sublimated by Scott's cameras. Another century, another conflict, this time it was between the Roman armed forces and the Germanic tribes that opened Gladiator. A sequence that has become cult and will have an echo in its sequel, warns the filmmaker.
Twenty-four years later, the director is doing it again in Gladiator II – but with delusions of grandeur. In an interview with EmpireRidley Scott confirmed that this sequel will begin with an impressive action scene:
“We start the movie with one of the biggest battle sequences I've ever done. Bigger than anything I've ever done for Napoleon.”
Although the mystery remains intact about this battle teased in the opening, it is obvious that it will certainly not be the only particularly violent and grandiose sequence. The trailer, released a few weeks ago, gives us a first glimpse of it with a naval battle in the Colosseum, another gigantic one against probably a city – we see a hundred ships of the Roman army, catapults and corpses lying in the dust – as well as gladiatorial fights spiced up by the entrance of a rhinoceros.
To achieve this scene, Ridley Scott explained that he used new technologies:
“Digitization and artificial intelligence, you have to embrace it (…) I have this thing that can go 65km an hour, turn on the spot, shake its head and growl. A two-ton rhinoceros with a guy on its back. I mean, it's a lot of fun.”
Gladiator II promises great entertainment.
We know exactly what Gladiator 2 will be about: Ridley Scott, Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Connie Nielsen tell us
Taking place years after the events of Gladiatorthe film will feature Lucius (Paul Mescal), who has grown up far from the heart of the Empire now in the hands of two fearsome brothers: Caracalla (Fred Hechinger) and Geta (Joseph Quinn). Lucius' peace is shattered by a Roman armada led by Marcus Acacius (Pedro Pascal) and the latter is taken prisoner, condemned to become a gladiator to survive…
It will be released in theaters on November 13.