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Ridley Scott Explained Why He Built His Own Colosseum For Gladiator II Rather Than Shooting On Location Or Making It CGI

Ridley Scott has always made it a priority to have practical effects on his sets, and the fact that Gladiator II required building sets to reenact the scale of the Roman Empire is mind-blowing!
The filmmaker took the Gladiator II cast to Malta, Morocco and other locations during the filming of the sequel and basically recreated the Roman Empire while he was at it.
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In a time when CGI regularly recreates the worlds we see on our big screens, one wouldn’t be surprised to see director Ridley Scott bringing Rome’s Colosseum to life through computer screens, but he went greatly practical instead.

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