Lt. Cmdr. James Coe of the submarine Skipjack battled for his boat to receive what he deemed a basic necessity: toilet paper.

100 days of bloodshed, roaring crowds, and choreographed death. The Colosseum wasn’t just an amphitheatre—it was the empire’s grandest display of power and punishment.

The filmmakers decided to make it larger than the actual Colosseum due to the scene in the sequel where the iconic building is filled with water for a naval battle. Per Variety, the size of the ...

Scott fills the Colosseum with water for a thrilling naval clash, but his historical advisers didn’t add the vital water-organ—the authentic sound of the so-called games.

It turns into a battle with gladiators and the Emperors’ guards falling into shark-infested water. To set it up, Mathieson explains the sequence was actually shot twice.

He battles with both the baboons and rhinos and conquers them both. “He’s getting a bit too powerful,” Mathieson explains. The emperors want to kill him off, so they devise a naval battle in the ...

For the Colosseum—which was completed 150 years after Cleopatra’s death—there are accounts of gladiators being forced to battle crocodiles to the death in the sand.

However, Scott has vocally pushed back against the idea that he invented the idea of water battles in the Colosseum. “You’re dead wrong,” the 86-year-old told an interviewer from Collider.