Peacock has launched the a brand new trailer for director Roland Emmerich’s upcoming gladiator drama collection These About To Die. The present explores the corrupt world of the spectacle-driven gladiatorial competitors.
This seems to be like an enormous scale collection and the motion and battle sequences which can be set in The Coliseum look actually good. The collection has excessive manufacturing worth.
The collection stars Anthony Hopkins, and the story dives into “a aspect of historical Rome by no means earlier than informed – the soiled enterprise of entertaining the plenty, giving the mob what they need most…blood and sport.”
The collection introduces “an ensemble of characters from all corners of the Roman Empire who collide on the explosive intersection of sports activities, politics, and dynasties.”
Emmerich beforehand talked in regards to the present, saying: “I’ve all the time been fascinated by the historical past of the Roman Empire. A lot nonetheless appears related for our society immediately – from the entanglement of politics and sports activities to the disciplines of the competitions, which have not modified a lot both over the past 2000 years.”
He added: “Probably the most electrifying spectacles for the plenty nonetheless contain two males in an area, beating one another up, and the chariots of immediately are referred to as race vehicles whose drivers nonetheless crash and sometimes pay with their lives.”
The filmmaker talked about his objective for the collection, saying: “When my companions Gianni Nunnari and Harald Kloser put Daniel Mannix’s These About to Die on my studying listing, I used to be instantly hooked.
“My objective was to create a present that explores a aspect of Rome by no means informed earlier than – the soiled enterprise of entertaining the plenty, giving the mob what they need most…blood and sport. Let the video games start.”
Hopkins is joined within the collection by Iwan Rheon (Recreation of Thrones), Sara Martins, Tom Hughes (A Discovery of Witches), Jojo Macari (Morbius), Moe Hashim, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Rupert Penry-Jones, Gabriella Pession, Dimitri Leonidas, Emilio Sakraya, David Wurawa, Pepe Barroso, Gonçalo Almeida, Eneko Sagardoy, and Romana Maggiora Vergano.
Emmerich directed 5 of the ten episodes in These About To Die with Marco Kreuzpaintner (Our bodies, The Lazarus Challenge) directing the opposite 5.
Peacock confirmed that each one ten episodes of These About To Die will premiere on July 18th.
