"Gladiator II" finally arrived on November 22, but fans are still wondering why Paul Mescal plays the slave fighter Lucius, ...

The new film stars Paul Mescal (Lucius) as an enslaved man who becomes a gladiator under the hands of his ambitious boss Denzel Washington (Macrinus).

Paul Mescal plays Lucius Verus in "Gladiator II." The film revealed in a trailer — and makes it clear in the movie — that Lucius is Maximus' son. In "Gladiator," Lucius is just a child ...

The first death comes very early on in the movie when Lucius' wife Arishat is murdered during the invasion of Numidia. Then another of those close to him dies when Jugurtha lets himself be killed ...

Much like in the first movie, a rebellion starts brewing in order to topple their leadership of the Roman Empire, and Mescal's Lucius becomes a key part in it. His thirst for revenge against those ...

I’m also a big Derek Jacobi fan (even if this movie is not). So I’m gonna do my best to get to the bottom of how historically accurate, or not, Gladiator II is. The real Lucius Verus died as a ...

After literal months of anticipation, we finally have our first proper look at Gladiator II starring Paul Mescal, after the trailer was released earlier this week. And now the countdown begins to ...