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}

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[mrph.livejournal.com]

...and we also get Neil Marshall's take on it, Centurion.

I may have commented on this before, but I'm starting to see a theme in his films.

Dog Soldiers? Squaddies visit Scotland, meet grisly death (werewolves)

Doomsday? Special forces troops visit Scotland, meet grisly death (post-apocalyptic renegade types).

Centurion? Roman legion visits Scotland. Hilarity ensues.