Gladiator 2 Cinematographer Accuses Director Ridley Scott of «Lazy Filming»

Gladiator 2, a sequel to the original 2000 film directed by Ridley Scott, recently premiered. However, the film crew was unhappy with the process of creating the film, accusing the director of laziness.

In a recent podcast for The DocFix, cinematographer John Mathieson, who worked on several cult films by Ridley Scott, such as Hannibal with Anthony Hopkins and Robin Hood with Russell Crowe, expressed dissatisfaction with the director's approach to filming. According to him, he began to neglect quality, relying on speed. For example, the director no longer cares about cleanliness on the set, which is why microphones, cameras, decorative elements and other annoying little things constantly end up in the frame. If Ridley Scott used to try to tidy up before the signal to shoot, now he left it to CGI in post-production.

This new approach of the famous film director did not bypass the sequel to Gladiator:

Also, Gladiator 2 used much more special effects than the original. According to John Matheson, there are several thousand examples of computer graphics in the film, while the 2000 film had 50.

Meanwhile, Gladiator 2 had a successful start at the box office. The film set a box office record for the first weekend of Paramount Pictures films, earning $87 million.

A new trailer for the Lord of the Rings anime, The War of the Rohirrim, was released earlier.