They really should have titled this movie Gladiators, now that I think about it. Harumph! Anyway this new Gladiator II poster isn't one I would hang on my wall like I would the up-skirt one they dropped yesterday -- an instant classic, that one! -- but it's never not nice tos ee Paul's face, Paul's eyes, et cetera et cetera. Anyway that goes along with this, the first trailer for the movie, which is hella action and Paul pec packed, although honestly a fair bit on the long side and feels as if it gives 75% of the movie away. But still...
... it might have sold me on the film even though I hate the first movie with a passion and I think Ridley Scott has been a genuine hack, give or take a couple of bright spots, for the past couple of decades. And I have to say -- excited about Paul Mescal obviously, and Pedro Pascal and Connie Nielsen as well. But the thing I walk out of this trailer feeling is...
... Fred Hechinger, ladies and gentlemen! I've been enamored with Fred since The White Lotus and the Fear Street movies and then of course Thelma but his pasty, something-riddled villain here is making me swoon with glee. I guess him and Joseph Quinn are splitting the Joaquin role from the first one -- heck I don't think I even knew Fred was in this? What a delight. Here is said trailer:
Gladiator II is out on November 22nd.
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They are really using Paul's sex appeal to market it to the ladies and gays. The eyes, the jaw line and the crotch in the posters. And the one divine nipple shot in the trailer that seems ring lit to the Gods--the marketers know what they are doing.
And Pedro and Joseph before they become half of "The Fantastic Four?" Plus Freddie, an underrated hottie? I am all in and I have not watched a Scott movie in probably two decades.
I'm into it.... but I can already see that a sea of straight white bros are gonna misunderstand the whole thing based on the fact that the decadent emperors are a couple of femme-presenting twinks.
It's Connie Nielsen,Theo must have reallyyyyyyyyy distracted you.
LOL good catch mrripley, will fix it now ;)
Ug! Despite all the "Joey, do you like movies about gladiators" lols this trailer gives me, it also screams that the audience it is marketing toward is (like it's predecessor) straight bros who will claim it a masterpiece. Even the fey characters seem a Mel Gibson plot point (the villains are the campy gays our straight heroes have to overcome).
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