Gladiator 2 debuts “epic” first footage, featuring a brutal Paul Mescal battling man-eating monkeys, a terrifying Joseph Quinn, and gladiators fighting sharks

Gladiator 2 has unveiled its first trailer behind closed doors at CinemaCon, and it’s apparently a seriously epic reintroduction to Ridley Scott’s Oscar-winning world. Per Variety, the trailer begins with Paul Mescal’s Lucius Verus as a nobleman who has been forced to renounce his privileged position to become a gladiator. Among the epic action sequences debuted are Mescal fighting a rhino,…