At an arena in Antium, Lucius and his fellow captives are pitted against savage and drug-enhanced olive baboons.
The cracks in Rome’s armor were already visible and growing in the time of Geta and Caracalla.
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Gladiator 2 is the follow-up to Ridley Scott’s award-winning film Gladiator from 2000. Scott returns to direct the sequel, with Paul Mescal staring as Lucius, alongside Denzel Washington and Joseph Quinn as the villain Emperor Geta. Gladiator 2 had been stuck in development hell for years before a script written by David Scarpa finally moved forward.
