"Gladiator II" Topic

"It continues decades after the first movie in which Russell Crowe played his father, now Lucius has come of age and has gotten far away from his mother, as Variety reveals. 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. He never fully understood why, and as he grew stronger, so did his resentment even if his mother's reasons had been pure. As Gladiator II begins, Mescal's Lucius, according to Variety, has a wife and child, and lives a relatively peaceful life with them until conquerors from his homeland begin to encroach. He's taken root in a seacoast town in Numidia. He's a blue-eyed, fair-skinned man with red hair, and he couldn't be more different from the inhabitants, director Ridley Scott reveals. It's one of the last surviving civilizations, as the Romans begin to descend in North Africa and take it all over. Leading that charge is Pedro Pascal's Marcus Acacius, a Roman general said to have trained as a junior officer under Crowe's character, although he wasn't seen in the first movie. Lucius, once the grandson of the emperor of Rome, finds himself a prisoner of it. But when he gets to Rome as a prisoner and has a first round in the arena, he sees his mother—to his shock. He doesn't know whether she's alive or not. And she's now with the general who he came face-to-face with on the wall in Numidia. Lucilla doesn't recognize the battered creature in the Colosseum as her son, and has no idea about the bloody history between him and the man she loves."

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