The story itself is also true to history, with some acceptable liberties taken for the film: Commodus really was a dangerous madman, and he really was in the habit of
fighting in the gladiatorial arena.
However, Kit Harington doesn't quite create the same distance from a certain brother of the Nightswatch, with his Celt Milo just becoming Jon
Snow in a Gladiatorial arena.
Having discovered she's already promised to Sutherland's corrupt Roman senator, he's quickly sold to another master who forces him to
compete in the gladiatorial arena.
Half - ish of the movie takes place on a distant garbage planet ruled by Jeff Goldblum's delightfully loopy Grandmaster, an ageless being who spends his time toying with various collected
creatures in a gladiatorial arena.
In one mode, we see players
battling in a gladiatorial arena with melee weapons against a swarm of zombies that seem to have been summoned by an ancient sun - worshipping Egyptian cult.
Despite the fact that the real life Commodus did actually
fight in the the gladiatorial arena, the ending stretched credulity for me but I suppose dramatic license is commonplace in film's of this type.
You can fight
in gladiatorial arenas.