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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[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

*follows link*

There is also a character called Quintus Dias. I assume he has brought his lovely daughter, Cameron.

In related news, I share your pain.

[time-shark.livejournal.com]

Don't you mean a vewwy gweat fwiend in Wome?

[chomiji]

Eeee! I didn't realize someone was making a movie of Eagle of the Ninth! Thank you for letting me know!

(I'd really love to see them do The Silver Branch, but that had more politics and somewhat less action. And they'd probably mess up Cullen big time.)

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

The Neil Marshall movie sounds terrible, I quite agree. I didn't know anyone was doing The Eagle of the Ninth. I hope it does the book justice--Rosemary Sutcliffe's books were a big part of my childhood.

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

I'd like to know this, also.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Well, I will point out that Marshall's already made what I personally consider one female-heavy horror classic (The Descent), one gritty popcorn werewolf B-flick (Dog Soldiers) and one crazy flaming bag of post-Apocalyptic crap that still contains an insanely cool performance by Rhona Mitra, barbarian queen of Beyond the Wall (Doomsday); whatever he comes up with, it will be Scots, insane, and probably a lot of fun to watch. I'm betting his version is more "Sent Down" than Life of Brian.

Besides...who says you can't see both?

[seishonagon.livejournal.com]

Ugh, Centurion looks absolutely horrendous. Wow. It looks halfway decent for a laugh, at least.

On the other hand, Eagle of the Ninth? Eeeeeeeeeeee. I really hope they do it well.

[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

The thought of an Eagle of the Ninth movie makes me very, very happy. Please can they not stuff it up!

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Clearly they're just waiting to cast Publicus Quantitative Various.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It'll probably be tosh, but at least they're filming in the right locations.

And it stars the totally wonderful Dominic West as Biggus Dickus!