By Starz has released the teaser trailer for “Spartacus: House of Ashur,” the new series set within the “Spartacus” franchise which helped establish the premium cabler’s original series efforts in the early 2010s.
The “history-bending, erotic, thrilling, roller-coaster experience” posits the idea that Nick Tarabay’s Ashur didn’t die on Mount Vesuvius at the end of “Spartacus: Vengeance”.
Instead, he’s gifted the gladiator school once owned by Batiatus in return for aiding the Romans in killing Spartacus and putting an end to the slave rebellion.
Also starring are Graham McTavish as the gladiator trainer, Tenika Davis as a female gladiator driven to surpass her male counterparts, Jamaica Vaughan is a young female house slave named Hilara and is deeply in love with Ashur, while Ivana Baquero is a fellow female house slave in love with Hilara.
Claudia Black plays a scheming politician, Jordi Webber is a brash gladiator, Black is scheming politician with India Shaw-Smith as her daughter, , Shaw-Smith is the politico’s daughter, and Leigh Gill as the leader of gladiators from a rival house.
Showrunner Steven S. DeKnight returns to steer the ten-episode series, while Lucy Lawless will also reprise her original show role of Lucretia in a guest-starring role. “Spartacus: House of Ashur” premieres this Fall.
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