Max spoke about his experiences building the Roman sets and the Colosseum, and how technology aided the production design process for Gladiator II. He also discussed the challenges of recreating Ancient Rome on a larger scale and the difficulties of filming water scenes.
starring Paul Mescal . Max spoke about his experiences building the Roman sets and the Colosseum, how technology aided the production design process, and more.
Brandon Schreur: You’ve obviously worked with Ridley Scott many times over the years, including doing production design for the first Gladiator movie. Gladiator II is something that’s been talked about for a long time — I remember hearing Russell Crowe might come back, and then it ended up being Paul Mescal.
We then went down the road from where we built the Colosseum in Malta to the studio, which has a football field-sized horizon tank. We built a piece of the Colosseum in there and actually did the practical water for the stunt work and the close-ups of the battle, the mock naval battle, that way. Interesting. That leads right into what I was going to ask you. It’s been 25 years since that first movie. And Gladiator, itself, looks impressive as hell, I mean it’s great.
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