{"id":2892,"date":"2014-01-14T17:52:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T17:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2014-01-14T17:55:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T17:55:34","slug":"ancient-roman-movies-in-2014-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/ancient-roman-movies-in-2014-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Roman Movies in 2014 and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Are you sitting? Well you&#8217;ve better, this list will blow your mind!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hercules: The Legend Begins<\/strong> debuted last weekend. The film is based in Ancient Greece, but inaccurately attributes the Latin name\u00a0&#8220;Hercules&#8221; instead of the Greek form Herakles.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Legend of Hercules (2014) Official Trailer - Kellen Lutz\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g0GMzQwO2l0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next Month, <strong>Son of God<\/strong> and <strong>Pompeii<\/strong> are hitting the silver screen. Both films are projected to do\u00a0fairly well. The reconstruction of <strong>Pompeii<\/strong> and its destruction\u00a0should be well worth the cheesy love story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/uUja5WJFAXA\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/uUja5WJFAXA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"POMPEII - Official Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t6TRwfxDICM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plebs <\/strong>follows the\u00a0story of three desperate young men from the lower classes as they try to\u00a0partake in sexual intercourse,\u00a0keep jobs and ascend the social ladder in the big city. <span style=\"font-size: small\">Brace yourself for more <strong>Plebs!<\/strong> It has been renewed for a second season for\u00a0 SPRING\u00a0<strong>2014. &#8220;<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">Can the bumbling misadventures of young Romans Marcus and Stylax and their lazy slave with an attitude problem, Grumio, possibly become\u00a0 more low-brow\u2026or hilarious?&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Plebs - Brand New Comedy | ITV2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XCc5E25LdW4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">FILM SOMETIME 2014<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Roman:<\/strong> &#8220;One lonely Roman general is wounded in battle. He heads toward the woods to die. Once entering the woods he is granted another day by the gods. He meets an Egyptian slave who has left his camp and both men meet in a death ridden forest and are tested.&#8221; The film also has a sequel in post-production called <strong>The Son of Raw&#8217;s the Roman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ZvG: Zombies vs. Gladiators<\/strong>. With the Zombie craze, this was an inevitable project. The story\u00a0recounts the story of the first ever zombie horde.\u00a0A shaman, about to die in the gladiatorial games, casts a spell that unleashes the first\u00a0 zombie horde. Other gladiators take it upon themselves to stop the undead before the destroy Rome and the Empire!\u00a0The film will\u00a0either be campy or gory, but either way- it will allow audiences to be engaged in an ancient setting.\u00a0The details are the\u00a0release are not cemented, but the writer-director of the film with be the horror veteran Clive Barker. More\u00a0release info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/06\/amazon-studios-clive-barker-see-zombies-roman-the-ancient-empire\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Mortis Rex<\/strong> (Latin for \u201cKing of the Dead\u201d) is set in A.D. 122 near Hadrian&#8217;s Wall, as a disgraced\u00a0Roman has\u00a0been\u00a0sent to defend a garrison in remote Scotland\u00a0\u00a0from a spate of mysterious murders. He must unite with the local Druids to vanquish a supernatural beast. This Ancient World Monster Movie should be interesting as it is a project of Peter Briggs (co writer of Hellboy).\u00a0\u00a0More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MortisRexMovie\" target=\"_blank\">details <\/a>can be found on the movie&#8217;s Facebook page. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Gladiators v. Werewolves<\/strong> : <\/span>AD 160. beasts beyond the great wall, senses an opportunity to win favour with the Emperor and even a place in the senate. But what will happen to if these beast become part of the Gladiatorial games?\u00a0 More can\u00a0be read on it<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avpictures.co.uk\/gvw.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2896\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avpictures.co.uk\/gvw.htm\" aria-label=\"Gvw Lg 212x300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2896\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2896\" alt=\"Courtesy of AV Pictures.\"  width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/01\/gvw_lg-212x300.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of AV Pictures.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Nicaea\u00a0<\/strong> begins with the triumph of the Christian emperor Constantine at the battle of the Milvian Bridge , then proceeds to depict the Council of Nicaea, which established the official creed of\u00a0state-sponsored Christianity.\u00a0 Production should begin in <strong>2014 <\/strong> and more details can be found on the movie&#8217;s official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicaeathemovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>SOMETIME 2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mary<\/strong>: &#8220;From Mary&#8217;s youth to her struggles as a young mother caring for her child, Jesus, up to the age of 12 years old. We will peer into Mary&#8217;s life at ages 8, 15, 19 and 27.&#8221; IMDB. Odeya Rush will play the title role in the feature film <strong>.<\/strong> Ben Kingsley (as Herod) will lend\u00a0 star-power to the cast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Roman<\/strong>: &#8220;An origin story of the future dictator as a young general in the Roman army ( a rarely discussed period of his life). Kidnapped by Cilician pirates and enslaved on their prison island, Caesar escapes with his men, and the decisions he makes during this time directly affect the political and social upheaval happening in Rome.&#8221; But if you want the real story of Caesar and the Pirates, Roman historian Josiah Osgood explores all the sources\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/repository.library.georgetown.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/10822\/555438\/osgood_caesar_pirates.pdf?sequence=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>The Lost Legion; <\/strong>In 53 BC, the Roman army of Crassus was massacred by Parthian forces at the battle of Carrhae. In the 1940s, Oxford scholar Homer H. Dubs speculated that some of Crassus\u2019s Roman soldiers were taken prisoner and eventually found themselves in the Gansu province of Han Dynasty China. From this intriguing material, scripter Kurt Johnstad\u00a0 is working on this\u00a0film.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Soon and Rumored<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Cleopatra,<\/strong> Ang Lee (Life of Pi,\u00a0Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and\u00a0Brokeback Mountain) has admitted publicly he would love to explore the untold history of Cleopatra with a film starring Angelina Jolie. Jolie has expressed some mutual interest as well. The film would be an adaptation of <em>Cleopatra: A Life, <\/em>by Stacy Schiff.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">The novel series by Conn Iggulden known as <strong>Emperor <\/strong>looks like it will be made into a film. Gianni Nunnari (producer of Alexander, 300, and Immortals)\u00a0 is working on a movie about the young Julius Caesar based on this novel series<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2898\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/01\/Hannibal3.jpg\" aria-label=\"Hannibal3 260x300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2898\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2898\" alt=\"Hannibal3\"  width=\"260\" height=\"300\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/01\/Hannibal3-260x300.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannibal and his men crossing the Alps.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Hannibal the Conqueror<\/strong>: Vin Diesel long ago announced his intention to make his directorial debut and star as Hannibal\u00a0, the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with elephants to menace Rome, working from a script by Oscar-winner David Franzoni (Gladiator and King Arthur) based on the novel &#8220;Hannibal&#8221; by Ross Leckie. Vin Diesel had the following to say on the trilogy last May:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Q:Are you referring to the Hannibal the Conqueror project?<\/strong> A:That\u2019s the hardest one. I was just looking at a script, 10 years old, by David Franzoni, that was my first <em>Hannibal<\/em> draft. To think that 10 years later, we\u2019re still marching towards the Alps is surreal. Now, after Universal\u2019s seen me produce this <em>Fast<\/em> trilogy, they are much more cautious about letting [the Hannibal] trilogy go to another studio. Now they feel like: \u201cThis is the trilogy guy, this is the guy who thinks in trilogies, he can do that.\u201d There is another studio that\u2019s saying they want to do all three films, do the trilogy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:It sounds like a pretty large-scale undertaking.<\/strong> A:You just keep building. I\u2019ve had Frank Miller in storyboard meetings, where he couldn\u2019t resist taking a pen and drawing out panels for <em>Hannibal<\/em>. I\u2019ve had Tarantino in my house acting out scenes he\u2019d love to see in the movie. Acting them out! Probably the last great director meeting I had was with Tony Scott. He [told me that] Denzel Washington\u2019s always wanted him to do <em>Hannibal<\/em>. And he said: \u201cBut after looking at the story, after talking to you, we should get Denzel to play your father, Hamilcar Barca.\u201d And that came from Tony Scott, who was just the nicest and most terrific man, one of the nicest directors I\u2019ve ever met in my life.<\/p>\n<p>When your dream\u2019s about to come true, when you\u2019re about to get that shot, it\u2019s like: \u201cHoly s\u2014! Is this really gonna happen? Am I sure I\u2019m ready to immortalize or to channel this spirit that\u2019s been dormant for 2,000 years, and never represented right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:Time to start practicing riding war elephants!<\/strong> A:I started practicing riding African elephants 10 years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">Rome Sweet Rome: <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\">A unit of current U.S. Special Forces are suddenly transported back to ancient Rome and encounter one of the world&#8217;s most legendary villains and disrupt history. To return home, they have to set history back on the track they altered,&#8221; is the plot summary so far provided. However, it will be interesting to see what &#8220;villain&#8221; is being mentioned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Memoirs of Hadrain:\u00a0 <\/strong> A film based on Marguerite Yourcenar&#8217;s book. Daniel\u00a0 Craig is rumored to be Hadrian, but there is no news as to who would play Antinius.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0<strong>I, Claudius<\/strong> (based on the novel by Robert Graves), made news recently that noted the HBO and BBC2 have \u201cjoined to remake the mini-series, with the creative team that produced the HBO series <strong>Rome<\/strong> in charge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Pontius Pilate: <\/strong>Another Brad Pitt rumor(besides\u00a0his Space\u00a0themed\u00a0Odyssey\u00a0film)\u00a0has him playing the Roman governor of Judea who sat in judgment on Jesus. Read a description of the screenplay and an interview with writer Vera Blasi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/08\/warner-bros-acquire-pontius-pilate-new-spin-on-an-infamous-figure\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"303\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/01\/Hannibal3-303x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/01\/Hannibal3-303x350.jpg 303w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/01\/Hannibal3.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><p>Are you sitting? Well you&#8217;ve better, this list will blow your mind! 2014 Hercules: The Legend Begins debuted last weekend. 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