Gladiator II serves as a sequel to the 2000 Oscar-winning function Gladiator. The plot takes 16 years after the primary film and follows a person initially generally known as Hanno (Paul Mescal), a Roman refugee residing in Numidia. When Rome assaults his new house, Hanno is enslaved and compelled to grow to be a gladiator. In the middle of the film, the true identities of Hanno and that of his organic father are revealed.
Is Lucius Maximus’ son in Gladiator 2?
Hanno is revealed to be Lucius Verus, the younger son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) from the primary film. Gladiator 2 additionally discloses that his organic father is Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe).
Lucius was launched within the first film because the son of a person whose title he shares. Nevertheless, there have been implications that issues may be a bit extra sophisticated than that. Gladiator hints at a previous romance between Lucilla and Maximus however doesn’t set up it as a truth. In distinction, the sequel embraces the concept, revealing that Lucius is the product of that relationship.
The film additionally implies by way of its characters that Lucilla’s husband wasn’t interested by girls and that she took lovers. After the deaths of Maximus and Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), Lucilla realized that Rome was now not secure for her son, the only male inheritor to Marcus Aurelius.
Within the following years, her son got here to resent her and Rome for this obvious abandonment. After his spouse died within the struggle with Rome, that resentment reworked into downright hatred. When Lucilla sees her son for the primary time within the Colosseum, she acknowledges who he’s as a result of he has comparable mannerisms as Maximus.
She later goes to talk to him and attempt to discern whether or not he’s certainly her son. Lucius initially rebuffs her efforts and tells her to depart after she tells him about his true parentage. Whereas the love for Rome he inherited from each side of his household may need grow to be dormant, it by no means went away. Within the climactic sequences, he places on his father’s armor and makes use of his father’s sword to grow to be the hero Rome wants.
