Gladiator 2 is one of the last big titles left in 2024. A highly anticipated sequel that represents another case of nostalgic fever Hollywood for continuing their major commercial successes. Top Gun: Maverick opened the season and recently Bitelchus Bitelchus has once again demonstrated the eagerness of an audience eager to return to the stories of their childhood and/or adolescence. However, unlike these examples, the return to the arena of the Colosseum arouses much more suspicion due to its questionable historical accuracy. A question that is of no importance to director Ridley Scott himself, nor to Denzel Washingtonone of the new stars who joined the sequel with Paul Mescal.
Reviews of Gladiator 2 they will be constant throughout the promotion and its first correspondent. Among other things because the original is a very popular film within the film community and because this return to ancient Rome will have to be at least, so epic like the cinematic heritage of its predecessor. Otherwise, a late follow-up will feel like a stain. so useless in intellectual property matters, such as the making of the film itself. It is therefore not surprising that the number of negative comments following the release of the trailer, which mainly alluded to the chosen rap song to the advance, but also to the accent used by Washington. The two-time Oscar winner recently responded to criticism that they complain about the accent of his character.
Denzel Washington doesn’t want to imitate
At the same time as the first trailer for Gladiator 2viewers realized that interest in historical accuracy would not be among the production’s strong points. Men on the backs of rhinoceroses, naumaquias out of their time… and Denzel Washington’s way of speaking, explaining in an interview why he didn’t look for an accent “the closest” how would someone talk about 211 AD. c.
In the plot, Washington plays Macrinusa former slave ambitious enough to attempt to conspire to control Rome. The character is a sort of political leader and arms dealer who also ends up becoming the mentor of Lucius (Mescal) and the rest of the gladiators he keeps in his power. Thus, when the promotional preview was released, the public was quite surprised that the actor of Training day used his real accent to get in touch the skin of the freedman. But the main reason is that the performer did not want to fall into crude imitation.
“Well, the question is: Where are we? Whose accent is it going to be? How does it sound? ‘You’re going to end up imitating someone and you’re going to end up with a bad African accent,’ Washington told the magazine. empireThe actor was a longtime collaborator of Ridley’s late brother, Tony Scott and in the same interview with the North American media, he did not want to miss the opportunity to explain why he had decided to collaborate again with the filmmaker of blade runner: “There are very few films left to make that interest me. I have to take inspiration from the filmmaker and Ridley has inspired me a lot. We had a great first opportunity and here we are. He’s committed. He’s excited about life and his next film. He’s an inspiration. “We should all feel that way at 86.” Scott and the actor first worked together in 2007 with American gangster. However, they had not collaborated since.
“Gladiator 2”: synopsis and release date
The official summary of Gladiator 2 is as follows: “Years after witnessing the death of the hero Máximo (Russell Crowe) at the hands of his uncle (Joaquin Phoenix), Lucio is forced to enter the Colosseum after witnessing the conquest of his home by two tyrannical employers who rule Rome with an iron fist. With his heart brimming with fury and the future of the empire at stake, Lucius must look back to the past to find the strength and honor that will restore the people of Rome’s lost glory.
Besides Denzel Washington and Paul Mescal, Gladitor 2 will have in its distribution Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger. Likewise, Derek Jacobi and Connie Nielsen reprise their roles from the first installment. With a budget of around $200 million, Paramount Pictures will next need a big global blockbuster. November 15 when the movie comes out.
