On a special point that lands towards the end of the 2024 movie schedule , strength and honor await a new generation. As Gladiator II is getting set to step back into the Colosseum this fall, there’s going to be a lot of stories about director Ridley Scott ’s skills behind the camera. But if there’s any member of the Gladiator II cast that has quite possibly the best stories about the franchise, it’d have to be returning actor Connie Nielsen.
Her latest comments about reuniting with Scott and his legendary creation have me even more excited to see this long awaited legacy-quel. Speaking with EW about reprising the role of Lucilla, Nielsen provided a fantastic picture of what it was like to be on the actual set of this long-developing follow-up. Keeping that in mind, take a look at the first piece of the Gladiator II gushing: Ridley has access to technologies that, back at the time of Gladiator [in 2000], were still somewhat in their infancy.
This time, you will see what I saw with my own eyes, which is that everything has been enhanced through the latest technology. You can just imagine that thing that Ridley does so well, which is the mixture of the actual real, old-fashioned film craft — real sets, real people, real everything, and quite extraordinary technology just even in creating those real things — and then add to that the new tools that he has at his fingertips. As someone familiar with Connie Nielsen’s favorite Gladiator memory , this story absolutely t.