And 9, 9, 9 for a lost god

[venta]

One of the things most guaranteed to throw any sensible person into a flat spin is the discovery that a favourite book is being made into a film.

Sometime this year, a film version of The Eagle of the Ninth will be released.

Will it suck? Will it be great? Will it trample all over one of the best-loved books of my childhood[*]?

I'm waiting anxiously.

Oh, and yes I do know that the book is based on an entirely false premise - what was a reasonably valid historical theory in 1954 is now known to be untrue. Don't care.

_{[*] and adulthood, if we're strictly honest}

Comments

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

now known to be untrue

Is it? Yikes, I should probably have paid more attention in history lessons. Which bits are wrong?

[zotz]

If I'm remembering rightly, the 9th is now known to have served in Germany after its time in Britain.

[venta.livejournal.com]

zotz is pretty much spot on (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Legion#Disappearance). I think the short version is that records of them existing after AD 117 have come to light since the '50s.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Hmm, the idea of them eventually being destroyed in a Jewish revolt might make for a good book too.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

(Especially in a Jewish revolt led by the man who invented Twenty Questions.)