1st Look at Gladiator 2

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Denzel Washington’s Macrinus is an arms dealer who lives lavishly and keeps a stable of gladiators for sport.

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Folks were wondering what role Denzel would be playing.

I think this will be decent. Mescal is a fantastic actor (I can’t wait to see him as Shakespeare in Hamnet too). Pascal can be good in this kind of role. I’m looking forward to it.

Is there any doubt that this guy will be a little puss?

Hans better be making the score for this

Gladiator's music is an all-timer

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Didn't realize they had black arms dealers in Rome

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They dealt with Ethiopians quite a bit, so it’s somewhat plausible. They found the Celts and Gauls to be way more barbaric and scary than the Ethiopians.

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Nielsen also returns in the sequel, playing one of the few true-life figures in the otherwise fictional Gladiator storyline, the daughter of the late emperor Marcus Aurelius. In the actual history, Lucilla was a firebrand revolutionary who despaired of the direction Rome took after her father’s demise.

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That's great, but the real Lucilla was killed by her brother Commodus when she was caught in a plot to assassinate him.

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decades have passed and Lucius has come of age far away from his mother. While he was still a child, Lucilla sent him to the northern coast of Africa, to a region called Numidia that was (at that point) just outside the reach of the Roman Empire.

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That's crazy since her son Lucius died when he was 8. He was born in 161, the same year as Commodus.

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That has always been my stance. If the character is good, fits the story, and the actor is good I dont care. Idris Elba could play George Washington and I would watch.

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retarded take

good actor, yes. suspension of disbelief, evaporated

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ooks a lot like Gadiator 1


My thoughts, too. Looks like they just recast a few roles, changed a few names and basically kicked out the same movie.

It may be great, but I'm not terribly intrigued.

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I mean it's a sequel picking up the story just 15 year after the first, what did you want it to look like?

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Gladiator's music is an all-timer

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Considering modern scores (i.e. since Jaws) it is down to Williams vs Zimmer, Gladiator really is the one he'll be most remembered for, IMHO (maybe along with PotC).

Sure, Lion King is a legend, but the popular songs dominate.

Likewise, Rain Man was great, but it needed to be understated and I don't think folks think about that film for its score.

But, Gladiator's score was the right balance between bombastic and nuanced and functions as an indispensable character to the film (similar to my thoughts about Blade Runner and Vangelis) - and it has the benefit of not being overshadowed by the pop songs like Lion King.

At least, that's my $0.02 on it.

If they used Ridley’s Gladiator score, people would finally all realize that he already reused it for Pirates of the Caribbean