Roland Emmerich traveled back to 79 AD for season one of his gladiator drama Those About to Die. For season two, he has dreams of traveling back even earlier. “We hope to do a little bit what Godfather II did,” Emmerich told The Hollywood Reporter of a potential season two. Emmerich says the show could tell dual stories using a “present timeline” and a “past timeline,” ala 1974’s The Godfather Part II, which explored the rise of Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro) via flashbacks and continued the story of his son Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in the “present day” story.
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