Is Gladiator 2 historically accurate ... Hollywood Reporter that the Romans were unlikely to have even known what a shark was. This is demonstrably untrue. Several Roman writers, including ...

But it's unlikely that the staged fights included sharks in the water. Ridley Scott's "Gladiator II" takes a few creative liberties and diverges from history to up the ante for audiences.

Even so, there is one element in Gladiator II that does strain incredulity: the sharks. In the same much-discussed sequence where Lucius leads fellow slaves into battle against a full-scale Roman ...

The “Gladiator II” naumachia raises the stakes by adding sharks, although that is unlikely to have happened in real life. Chris Epplett, a Greek and Roman history professor at the University ...

(And if you're really into it, "Gladiator III" could be on the way.) Get ready for gory scenes of gladiators fighting crazed monkeys, oversized rhinos, hungry sharks and ... wait, what? There were ...

The full-length trailer for "Gladiator II" features the sequel's new A-list cast, but it also shows off some exotic—and deadly—creatures. Were they a part of real gladiator battles? Zelensky ...

And to get a couple of sharks in a net from the sea ... second-century BCE mosaic from Pompeii. The scenes in Gladiator 2 that depict combatants riding rhinos in the Colosseum may be artistic ...

The sharks of the naval battle may not have been ... but it shouldn't be something that truly ruins the movie for anyone. Gladiator 2 is the follow-up to Ridley Scott's award-winning film ...

As Gladiator 2 – or II to be more accurate – hits big ... that is causing disputes around Gladiator II is the addition of sharks to this scenario. Ridley Scott certainly thinks this happened ...

The shark battle might be one of the most entertaining ... Eventually, he’s sold as a gladiator and becomes a leader. He battles with both the baboons and rhinos and conquers them both.

Yes there were rhinos, but... According to Professor Epplett, rhinos were present in the Colosseum. “The first rhinoceros to arrive in Rome was at the end of the Republic, just a century before ...