A fake trailer for Ridley Scott’s film was shown during the Saturday Night Livewhere the peplum is transformed into a musical film, very popular in recent weeks.
When Gladiator encounter Wicked it gives “ Glicked “. Guest of Saturday Night Live (SNL), an American humorous television show bringing together the biggest Hollywood stars, Paul Mescal revisited Ridley Scott’s second epic on Saturday as a musical comedy.
“It’s the same violent historical epic that audiences love, but with 50 minutes more songs,” announces a voice-over as seriously as possible before launching the fake trailer entitled Gladiator : The Musical. The show created in 1975 benefits from the commercial success of recent musicals like Vaiana 2 et Wicked . Released on the same day in the United States, Ridley Scott’s epic and the prequel to Wizard of Oz are causing a sensation in the cinema but also on social networks, where the trend “ Glicked “. The latter is inspired by “ Barbenheimer », contraction of films Barbie et Oppenheimeralso released on the same day in July 2023, a release that went viral on the internet.
This fake SNL trailer from Gladiator opens with comedian Kenan Thompson, who takes on the costume of Macrinus, played by Denzel Washington in the film. “ There’s No Place Like Rome “, he sings. He is then joined by the hero Paul Mescal, who has dressed for the occasion in his gladiator outfit. “They call me gladiator, they call me slave, they call me killer, but one day they will know my first name,” sings the 28-year-old Irish actor, revealed by the series Normal People. He accompanies his performance with a little sway before returning to cut heads in the arena. A turnaround in the scenario that Ridley Scott was not ” not aware “, quips the trailer.
Success of musicals
Gladiator : The musical ends with Paul Mescal leaving the arena on a broom, wearing a witch’s hat, in reference to the character of the Wicked Witch of the West, played by Cynthia Erivo in Wicked. With more than $320 million at the American box office in three weeks of release, the prequel to Wizard of Oz enjoys real success. Just like Guilt 2the latest Disney to date, which marks the return of the Polynesian heroine. The musical cartoon grossed more than $300 million in just two weeks of operation.
