Spartacus Season 2 Complete Download

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Spartacusis an American historical drama television franchise created by Steven S. DeKnight. It is televised by television network Starz, premiering on January 22, 2010, and concluding on April 12, 2013. The series was inspired by the historical legend of Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator, who from 73-71 B.C., led a slave rebellion against the Roman Republic. DeKnight serves as the lead writer and executive producer ofthe series. The show has been rated TV-MA for graphic violence, profanity, and strong sexual content. Filming is based solely in New Zealand.

The show is comprised of 3 seasons and a prequel. The first season is titled Spartacus: Blood and Sand. After filming of the season was complete, the production team announced a second season to be produced. However, it was delayed due to lead actor Andy Whitfield being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Because of the delay, Starz produced a six-episode prequel titled Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, to introduce a backstory and to give Whitfield time to recover. Pre-production of season 2 continued when Whitfield was announced cancer-free, however his cancer recurred, and Starz officially re-casted the role to Liam McIntyre for the role of Spartacus for season 2, titled Spartacus: Vengeance. Whitfield gave his blessings, and passed away on September 11, 2011. On June 4, 2012, Starz announced the third and final season, titled Spartacus: War of the Damned. War of the Damned premiered on January 25, 2013.

Spartacus is set during the later days of the Roman Republic. The story focuses on the gladiator champion, Spartacus, and the events leading up to and during the Third Servile War. Spartacus must tackle the very might of Rome in order to realize his cause: the freedom of all slaves.

On October 27, 2007, Starz announced their new series titled Spartacus. It was said to have a "entirely new twist on the ancient legend, will utilize virtual environments giving it a unique graphic novel look and style, along with a fresh narrative approach." Starz officially greenlit the series, and production began in New Zealand in early 2008. The first season, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, premiered on January 22, 2010. On December 22, 2009, a month before it premiered, it was announced that the show was renewed for a second season by Starz.

During the pre-production of season 2, it was announced that production was delayed due to Andy Whitfield being diagnosed with the early stages of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Due to the delay, Starz announced in May 2010 the production of a prequel, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, to allow lead actor Whitfield time to recover. The prequel introduced new characters while maintaining old ones. John Hannah became the lead and reprised his role as Quintus Lentulus Batiatus. Dustin Clare was introduced into the series as a protagonist and Gladiator champion Gannicus. Production began in August 2010, and the prequel premiered on January 21, 2011.

After the prequel was wrapped, production of season 2 went underway, and Andy Whitfield was planned to return to the set. However, in September 2010, Starz announced that Whitfield's cancer had returned and that he had decided not to return to the set. For some time it was debated whether the production crew should continue or not without their lead star, who they said brought "gravity and heart" to the role of the famous warrior. "It's unheard of to recast your titular character in a television show, and we did a lot of soul searching about whether we even wanted to try." Spartacus creator Steven S. DeKnight said. "And then Andy Whitfield said, 'I really think the show should go forward without me. I give you the blessing. I want this story told.'" It was decided that production will continue, and on January 17, 2011 it was announced that Liam McIntyre was selected to take over the role of Spartacus. Before his death, Andy Whitfield gave his blessings to him.

On February 26, 2011, DeKnight revealed that Lesley Ann-Brandt, the actress who portrayed Naevia, would not be returning in season 2 due to the delay in production. She was replaced by actress Cynthia Addai-Robinson.

In 2009, a comic series was adapted by comic book publishing company Devil's Due titled Spartacus - Blood and Sand. It is comprised into four different stories and is the prequel to the television adaptation of Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

On Facebook, there where two Spartacus games. The original one allowed the player two run their own Ludus, while Spartacus: Vengeance The Game, allowed them to take the role of a commander under Spartacus during the early stages of the Third Servile War. Both games have both since been deactivated.

In 2012, Spartacus Legends was announced by video game company Ubisoft. Kung Fu Factory developed the fighting game based on the television series. Legends was released on June 26th, 2013 for the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.

A good example is John Hannah from season one. His portrayal of Batiatus really brought something fantastic to the show. But for the story to continue, Spartacus needed to kill him for that season to have its closure and to feel like the hero had a major victory in moving forward in his story. So for that reason, a really fantastic character and a fantastic actor had to go.

I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about the decision as far as how things played out with Lucretia, and whether or not Lucy Lawless will be around at all, like maybe in a flashback capacity or something in [the next] season, or is she completely gone from the show?

What can we expect from just the next season, like with the first episode, because in the season two, it was a pretty big bang in my opinion, especially with you know, traveling through a whorehouse and someone gets stabbed in the back of the neck. How are you going to like, try to top that again with season three?

You mentioned sort of the ambiguity as far as you know, what Caesar was doing, and his sort of role in that sort of allows you to play some with Crassus, but how much do you use the historical accounts to influence the personalities of the characters themselves?

Quite a bit, quite a bit. And you know, sometimes of course we have to tweak that. One of the liberating things on the Spartacus side is that there is nothing known about any of them and their characters. The fragments that are left from the third servile war tell very little about the emotional state or the relationships of Crixus, of Spartacus, of Gannicus, so you know, we were able to construct that.

How are you going to form that, because you have one who wants to become a great general, and you have one a few things which has been kind of agreed upon about Caesar, is he really from a young age wanted to go to the higher power. And (unintelligible) Crassus was also a much richer man than Caesar at that time.

So basically, these two come together because Crassus has the money but not the name and Caesar has the name but not the money, and together they think they can actually do something great. And historically, Crassus did in fact fund Caesar and help him out quite a bit financially. So they don't always see eye-to-eye, and historically, you know, they had a very rocky relationship. They weren't, you know, like tight brothers, so I definitely want to play with that too.

The trickiest thing on this show is when we kill off somebody is resisting bringing back a character that takes that place. We had this discussion moving into Vengeance, about you know, it would really be nice to have a Batiatus type character, a guy who talks like that and acts like that. My ultimate feeling was if you try to bring in a Batiatus substitute, the audience will smell that a mile away.

So there are new female characters. They will not be the same type of characters. They will have different stories and different strengths and different weaknesses. But I definitely, definitely want to, you know - do not wipe out all the female characters. And it was a discussion we had that having killed a lot of people in the finale, half of them were important female characters, and we definitely want to bring more in, but of a very different type.

Right. Well, the main ones are of course Crassus and Caesar, and we have several others that are popping up. I can't give details because it would ruin what's going to happen, but some very interesting characters that Spartacus comes across, and also on the Roman side some very interesting characters. I can throw out one Roman side.

We will see Crassus' son Publius. He will be part of the story line. Historically, Publius was actually Crassus' stepson, since Crassus' brother, also named Publius, died, and Crassus married his brother's wife, which was very common at the time, not a love thing. It was to keep the money in the family and the holdings in the family.

For our story it became incredibly convoluted and difficult to explain the backstory without a two-page exposition piece. So we have simplified it, that it is Crassus' son Publius. And he will play a major role in this next season.

Regarding both the female characters, the new ones, and the new male characters, have all the casting decisions been made or are you still looking for additional actors for Spartacus in season three?

But the question does rise, how do you define victory? When is it enough? And this is something that will really haunt Spartacus through most of this season, is you know, what is the end point? Is it to overthrow Rome, and then what happens? Which goes into a deeper sense of war, and you know, when is a war over? And is it ever over for people like Spartacus?

But the challenges were just monumental. It really was one big experiment of can you do something like that, can you take the visual concepts and aesthetic that (Zach Snyder) so brilliantly pioneered in 300, and apply that to a television show where the time restrictions and the money restrictions are just massive? So it was really a learn-as-you-go compounded by - the problem compounded by the fact that we went straight to 13 episodes.

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