Spartacus: Home of Ashur took over San Diego Comedian-Con on Saturday, as Starz introduced a winter premiere for the sequence and revealed a primary have a look at the sequence in a teaser trailer under.
Spartacus: Home of Ashur is an exhilarating, erotic, history-bending, roller-coaster expertise that builds on the whole lot that made the unique sequence a colossal hit. What if he lived, and the Romans rewarded his treachery with the gladiator college the place he as soon as bled? Welcome to the Home of Ashur. Not a slave, Ashur has clawed his solution to energy, proudly owning the identical ludus that after owned him.
However ruling a band of cruel gladiators is baby’s play in comparison with surviving the savage world of Roman politics — a cutthroat recreation during which betrayal isn’t a sin, it’s foreign money. He flips custom on its head by unleashing Achillia, a fierce and highly effective gladiatrix desirous to show herself worthy in a person’s world. Collectively, they ignite a brand new sort of spectacle that shocks, disrupts, and offends the elite with each drop of blood.
Nick E. Tarabay returns to the character of Ashur, his unique function from Steven S. DeKnight’s Spartacus, which aired for 3 seasons, in addition to the prequel sequence Spartacus: Gods of the Area. Along with DeKnight and Tarabay, the panelists included Tenika Davis, Graham McTavish, Jamaica Vaughan, Jordi Webber, and Jaime Slater. Liam McIntyre, who performed Spartacus within the unique sequence’ third season, served because the moderator of the panel.
McIntyre sweetly kicked off the celebration with a nod to the sequence’ unique Spartacus, Andy Whitfield, who died in 2011 of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, on the age of 39. Earlier than introducing the panelists, he requested the group of rowdy and devoted followers to clap and cheer for Whitfield, and in flip, the followers erupted in response, celebrating his reminiscence.
Very similar to the sequence, the panel was raunchy and naughty, and most of the jokes are usually not made for print.
Nonetheless, here’s what we are able to share.
Steven S. DeKnight teases if Spartacus: Home of Ashur will probably be as attractive as Spartacus.
DeKnight and Tarabay tackle if any unique characters, outdoors of Ashur and Lucretia (Lucy Lawless) would possibly seem.
Watch the teaser trailer under.
