This week in Las Vegas the first footage for Gladiator 2 screened at CinemaCon to those lucky enough to attend the industry event.

Sir Ridley Scott, who returned to direct the sequel, teased in a video: “It is possibly even more extraordinary than the first.”

Set 20 years after Russell Crowe’s Oscar-winning original, Paul Mescal stars as a nobleman who renounces his status to become a gladiator, having been inspired by the late Maximus.

His character Lucius, grown up from the first movie,…