βGladiator IIβ Cinematographer Breaks Down Flooding the Colosseum for a Shark Battle
βGladiator IIβ picks up 16 years after the first film ends. When director Ridley Scott was conceiving the original, the approach was, βBuild the sets, fight real tigers, shoot real arrows,β says cinematographer John Mathieson. This time around, things had moved forward and the Colosseum was at its height. But also there had been huge [β¦]