The first Gladiator 2 trailer is right here, and it’s bought one thing director Ridley Scott has needed for a very long time: a rhino.
Today’s trailer for the long-awaited sequel teases an action-packed epic and sequel to Scott’s unique 2000 basic. Though the primary movie managed to entertain audiences with standout performances from Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix, it lacked a sure horned mammal that he needed to incorporate. Doug Wick, who produced Gladiator, instructed ComicBook.com in 2020 that Scott’s rhinoceros desires had been shattered resulting from costly CG prices.
“There are points that had been actually extra about value,” Wick stated on the time. “Which is, for instance, Ridley needed a rhino within the enviornment. And, once we talked to the animal trainers, they stated, ‘Well, they’re nice to work with, however when you begin it, you’ll be able to’t cease it.’ So then we priced a CG rhino and it was simply too costly. So I’d say that was one of many regrets, we could not give Ridley a CG rhino.”
Wick added that it’s been a “operating joke, that if we ever do a sequel, Ridley will get his rhino.” Well, Gladiator 2 is almost right here, and so is that rhino.
According to The Hollywood Reporter’s sources, the movie’s finances managed to balloon from round $165 million to round $310 million. We see a few of that top value within the trailer, because the animal steals the present by recklessly operating towards Paul Mescal’s Lucius earlier than he throws sand in its blood-covered face.
The Gladiator 2 trailer affords greater than only a shiny CG rhino to carry onto till its launch this fall. Elsewhere within the trailer, we are able to see extra from Mescal in addition to Pedro Pascal as Marcus Acacius and Denzel Washington as Macrinus. Gladiator 2 expenses into theaters November 22, 2024. It’ll share its date with the live-action movie model of Wicked, giving audiences an surprising follow-up to final 12 months’s Barbenheimer pattern.
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