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The director’s love of opera is what makes sense of this huge, heaving epic.

But the jolly tone gives way to something fiercer and more appropriately epic: a galloping rhythm on the drums, insistent bass and scorching guitar notes.

“It will be an epic challenge,” he says, to deploy such a dense network across the high-altitude terrain with scant infrastructure.

Normal People actor Mescal is currently starring in blockbuster Gladiator II. Ridley Scott’s highly anticipated sequel following the 2000 epic has been met with a mixed response from film critics.

For them, it was an epic loss, one that Ann Coulter, Tucker Carlson and others would still be mourning a decade later.