Saturday Night Live tonight imagined a world the place, influenced by the success of Wicked and Moana 2, Gladiator II decides so as to add 50 minutes of musical content material to turn into an excellent larger hit.
That was the plot of a skit that includes host Paul Mescal “reprising” his Gladiator II position as Lucius, besides this model croons about his feeling misunderstood as a killing machine when “they don’t know that far under I’m a lot extra.”
All of it kicked off with Kenan Thompson singing how there’s “No Place Like Rome” with Mescal agreeing that “I’m gonna prefer it right here.” From there, the skit went on to clarify how an additional 50 minutes of songs have been added to the sequel that also promised to be the “similar violent epic.”
A number of SNL gamers joined in on the mini-musical, with Mikey Day as Rome’s emperor rapping a ditty that supposedly got here courtesy of Lin-Manuel Miranda. “I don’t imply to be a hater, however I don’t like this gladiator,” he sang.
He and Mescal then flossed.
Opinions, the skit admitted, have been combined. One slide got here up with a quote from the movie’s director Ridley Scott saying, “I used to be not informed about this.” One other learn, “Motion pictures are in such a bizarre place proper now.”
The spot ends with Mescal leaving the Colosseum on a brush, belting out a model of the well-known battle cry from Depraved‘s “Defying Gravity.”
