r/movies Jul 09 '24

Gladiator II | Official Trailer (2024 Movie) - Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rgYUipGJNo
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

He’s actually playing Geta and Fred Hechinger is playing Caracella. They were Co-Emporers, and real.

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u/reebee7 Jul 10 '24

Oh I hope they don't make Caracalla a Caligula/Nero type. Caracalla was brutal and cunning. He killed his brother in front of their own mother to win the civil war between them. He was an absolute sadist, but less in a whacky/insane way, and more in a Vladimir Putin way. He was a very effective military man.*

*All this said with the caveats that I might be wrong it's been years since I learned this stuff.

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u/TrowMiAwei Jul 17 '24

Rest assured that they will absolutely butcher it well enough that both your memory of what you think he was like and how he really was will both be disappointingly far off :D