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?

[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.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

The Ninth had nothing on Legio XX Valeria Victrix, I'm telling you...

[ebee.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhh....I Share your concern!

[mrlloyd.livejournal.com]

That was a good book. I do hope the film is good.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

I did read it, a couple of times, when I could acquire it from my sister's bookshelves. The first time I was probably around 7, and the second, I'd guess at 9. I can remember nothing about it, other than the existance of the book.

Now I should decide whether to get myself a copy (and probably some other Rosemary Sutcliff) before the film comes out.

[mrlloyd.livejournal.com]

Blimey. I thought it was a standalone.

6 more - that's tempting.