A long march, a long march, and twenty years behind

[sovay]

Look, I don't know Neil Marshall from a poke in the eye with a pilum, but all things being equal, I'd rather see The Eagle of the Ninth. No offense, but General Virilus? Does he have a very great friend in Rome named Biggus Dickus?

(Oh, movies. How is it you can beautifully realize Middle-Earth and still fuck up the Romans on a regular basis?)

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[sovay]

I was going to use this one, that I use for YA/children's, until I remembered.

Hey, that one is quite legitimate, too.

In the photos I found, the actor cast as Marcus even looks rather like the recent paperback book cover painting of him.

Dude. Show?

(It's just that Cullen is such a strange little character, and it would be so easy to make him funny in the wrong way.)

Do you have any actor in mind who could play him properly?

[chomiji]

Hmmm ... book cover. Actually, in that picture, Marcus is a bit darker than Channing Tatum, the actor who's to play him. But the endearing thing about Mr. Tatum, from what I can see, is that he's not Hollywood handsome, and he looks rather soldierly.

Re Cullen: Gosh, I am very out of the loop on recent actors - we see maybe half a dozen movies per year, if that, and I almost never watch TV. So I'm not coming up with any names.

[sovay]

Marcus is a bit darker than Channing Tatum, the actor who's to play him. But the endearing thing about Mr. Tatum, from what I can see, is that he's not Hollywood handsome, and he looks rather soldierly.

Agreed on that last. I actually saw him last year in Stop-Loss; his bones are still too big for his face. If he does not look particularly Roman, at least he does not look all wrong for a legionary.