An epic and violent trailer for Roland Emmerich’s Gladiator series

Ancient Rome in the spotlight Those who are about to die

Anthony Hopkins will return to a series soon. We will find it like this in Those who are about to die. Inspired by Daniel P. Mannix’s book of the same name, the show unfolds in Rome, in 79 AD. As the city’s population becomes increasingly agitated, gladiator fights are one of the rare things capable of appeasing him. In this context, a huge arena specially designed for these fights, the Colosseum, was created. The scale of the clashes then takes on another dimension.

Robert Rodat wrote the show’s script. Roland Emmerich and Marco Kreuzpaintner directed the episodes. In addition to Anthony Hopkins, the series’ international cast includes Dimitri Leonidas, Jojo Macari, Gabriella Pession, Iwan Rheon, Sara Martins and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson. The show will be viewable on Prime Video, which just revealed it the first trailer (featured video).

First violent images for the series

The trailer of Those who are about to die make fun of us a story of struggle for power behind the scenes of ancient Rome. Anthony Hopkins’ character, Emperor Vespasian, wants to secure his succession ” to protect “ Rome, in his words. But some enemies of the emperor intend to change things after his death.

The images revealed are also particularly rhythmic. In particular we see a chariot race and a gladiatorial fight, great classics of the peplos. It should be noted that, according to the magazine Distantit was also the book that inspired the series one of the sources of inspiration of the cult Gladiatorespecially regarding the brutality of gladiator fights.

Those who are about to die has been cut ten episodes of approximately one hour. They will come next July 19th on PrimeVideo.

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Source: Cine Serie

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