The latest action-packed trailer for 'Gladiator II' just dropped. The first trailer racked up 215 million global cross-platform views in just a few days. In the new preview, Paul Mescal's character fights for revenge.
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00:00Rome has taken everything from me, but I will have my vengeance.
00:07The latest action-packed trailer for Gladiator 2 just dropped.
00:11It is an art, choosing gladiators.
00:16They're usually prisoners of war.
00:18The first trailer racked up 215 million global cross-platform views in just a few days.
00:24In the new preview, Paul Meskel's character fights for revenge.
00:28I own you now, but whose head could I give you to satisfy your fury?
00:34The general will do.
00:36The film sees Meskel play the grown-up nephew of Emperor Commodus.
00:39Commodus was played by Joaquin Phoenix in the original film.
00:43After being forced into slavery, Meskel's character returns to Rome to battle not as a ruler,
00:48but as a gladiator out for vengeance over two decades after the original Gladiator epic.
00:52Lucius, take your father's strength.
00:56His name was Maxibus, and I see him in you.
01:00Gladiator 2 opens November 22, over 20 years after Ridley Scott's original Gladiator was
01:05released. That film won five Oscars, including Best Picture.
01:09Scott is reportedly working on ideas for a Gladiator 3 down the road.
01:13I don't fight for power. I fight to free Rome from men like them.
01:20For more on this story and to watch the full new trailer, head to THR.com.
01:25This is The Hollywood Reporter News.