Even as legacy sequels go, Gladiator 2 is coming a long time after the original movie. The new 2024 blockbuster, which comes out on Friday, November 15 in the UK and Friday, November 22 in the US, arrives a full 24 years after the original, and so you'd be forgiven for being a bit hazy on the plot points it continues.
Starring Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal, Gladiator 2 stars the former as Lucius, the son of Maximus, and the latter as Marcus Acacius, a general who trained under Maximus (all in Roman times, of course). When Acacius invades Numidia, where Lucius lives with his wife, the latter is taken as a slave to fight as a gladiator and is brought into a wider plot to bring down emperors.
