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How Gladiator II Connects to the Original Gladiator

Warning: This post contains spoilers from Gladiator II. Ridley Scott’s first Gladiator movie may not feature a show-stopping performance from Denzel Washington as a scheming, robe-swishing arms dealer, but the Best Picture winner does include a number of plot points that play a significant role in the long-awaited sequel. Nearly 25 years after Scott’s Russell Crowe-led tale of Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius’ quest for vengeance against Joaquin Phoenix’s Commodus, the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery, Gladiator II, now in theaters, follows the rise of a new warrior with a score to settle against the powers that be of Rome. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] This time around, Paul Mescal takes the lead as Lucius Verus, the now grown son of Connie Nielsen’s Lucilla, who appeared as a child, played by Spencer Treat Clark, in the 2000 original.

 

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