After twenty years of failed attempts, director Ridley Scott is finally making Gladiator 2 and he is going for broke with this insane cast. We have Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan, Denzel Washington, and none other than Pedro Pascal, everyone’s favorite man of the hour, heading into the arena. When it comes to all those new faces, only Mescal and Quinn are attached to named characters, and everyone else boasts that most rumor-mongering of cinephile terms…the mighty “undisclosed role.” Plot details for Gladiator 2 are as tight-lipped as the casting, but thanks to the well-researched theories of a Reddit user, an obscure time in Roman history might provide clues to the plot — and Pascal’s role in it. Put on your detective hats, and let’s begin.
