Gladiator II features a naval battle held in the Colosseum. These brutal spectacles really happened
The largest recorded naumachia came some years later. This reenactment of battle between the “Rhodians” and “Sicilians” was ...
Gladiator II fact vs fiction: did the Romans really fight sharks in the Colosseum?
As Gladiator 2 – or II to be more accurate – hits big screens around the country, the spectacle on display will be dropping a ...
All the ways Gladiator 2 trashes history – and the surprising things it gets right
Ridley Scott’s latest epic takes his usual sledgehammer to the historical record – but it also sticks curiously close to the ...
Gladiator 2's flooded Colosseum scene is causing a big historical debate
Did Roman gladiators really fight sharks? Ridley Scott thinks so and, ahead of the release of Gladiator 2, he's defending his ...
Did they put sharks in the Colosseum? Let's fact-check Gladiator 2's biggest moments
The naumachiae seem mostly to have been recreations of famous historical engagements – in the movie, it's the Battle of ...
‘You’re Dead Wrong’: Ridley Scott Defends Gladiator II Scene That’s Already Getting Hate Online Over Accuracy
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‘Gladiator 2’ Production Designer Arthur Max Made Everything Bigger and Better: It Was ‘Gladiator’ on ‘Steroids’
Ridley Scott had one directive for production designer Arthur Max on “Gladiator II”: “I want to go big. I want to imply the ...
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Gladiator 2's flooded Colosseum scene is causing a big historical debate
in which Paul Mescal's lead character takes part in a naval battle within the bizarre confines of a Colosseum filled with water. During that battle, numerous sharks are released into the arena.
Exhausted, decadent imperial decline prevails in maximalist sequel Gladiator II
Gladiator II is both bad history and bad historical fiction, Ridley Scott's maximalism never replicating the charisma of ...