Overview
- Starz debuted a teaser trailer at San Diego Comic-Con and confirmed a winter premiere for the spin-off.
- Steven S. DeKnight returns as showrunner and executive producer with Lionsgate Television producing for Starz.
- Nick E. Tarabay reprises his role as Ashur, who survives execution to command the Ludus Batiatus.
- Tenika Davis joins the cast as Achillia, marking the franchise’s first female gladiator entering the arena.
- Jackson Gallagher replaces Todd Lasance as Julius Caesar in a cast that also features Graham McTavish and Claudia Black.