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Gladiator II FIRST LOOK: Paul Mescal's Lucius Verus vows to follow legendary Maximus out of the fighting pits as enslaved former heir picks up the sword in blood soaked first trailer for Ridley Scott's blockbuster sequel


Mescal takes his biggest  role to date in this epic historical blockbuster, a blood and gore soaked sequel to Scott's award-winning 2000 triumph, Gladiator.

Several decades have passed, but Maximus remains fresh in the memory as Paul Mescal's Lucius picks up the sword in the first official trailer for Ridley Scott's eagerly anticipated Gladiator II. With Russell Crow's legendary Maximus long-since dead and buried, it is Lucius - the grandson of Rome's former emperor Marcus Aurelius - who must fight for his liberty after being taken into slavery. Several decades have passed, but Maximus remains fresh in the memory as Paul Mescal 's Lucius picks up the sword in the first official trailer for Ridley Scott's eagerly anticipated Gladiator II

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