HBO Rome: The film...

Not sure where to put this, but I am sure that many Total War Rome II players will have liked HBO's 'Rome' series, that sadly only ran for two seasons, despite critical acclaim and popularity with the public.

Seems that as of late April this year a 'Rome' film is now moving forward, featuring the main screen writer from the HBO series, and at least some of the same actors including series stars Kevin McKidd (Lucius Vorenus) and Ray Stevenson (Titus Pullo). The action will be set in Germany about four years after the end of series two of 'Rome' (which featured the defeat, and death, of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra

http://screenrant.com/hbo-rome-movie...ls-kofi-47487/

Ehhh Lucius are dead

Originally Posted by VarrKhaitan

Ehhh Lucius are dead

Nope, he was very sick but it seems he did not die. If you follow the link there is even a link to Kevin McKidd confirming he will play Lucius again...

Originally Posted by VarrKhaitan

Ehhh Lucius are dead

The outcome of his injury was left as a cliffhanger. TV shows do that all the time at the end of a season to leave you longing for the next one.

I would rather have the cast from HBO Rome than a new cast in a new setting.

Originally Posted by Aeneas Veneratio

The outcome of his injury was left as a cliffhanger. TV shows do that all the time at the end of a season to leave you longing for the next one.

I would rather have the cast from HBO Rome than a new cast in a new setting.

It was certainly played more to the effect of him dieing and that is what made it such a satisfactory end. Lucius dies to atone for his perceived sins but knows his family safe with his one friend he trusts above all.

Anything else would be weak sauce, really.

Moved to The Arts section.

Loved ROME and watch it on DVD every couple of years.

Why a movie? They should go with another series - the 2 hour format is so yesterday and a waste of money - they'll spend as much making a movie as they would for 2 or 3 series. It's not like the story of the Roman Empire is confined to a single first generation. Would love to see Caracalla and his era depicted, and when is someone going to do Justinian and Theodora - now that's a story!

Originally Posted by Spear Dog

Loved ROME and watch it on DVD every couple of years.

Why a movie? They should go with another series - the 2 hour format is so yesterday and a waste of money - they'll spend as much making a movie as they would for 2 or 3 series. It's not like the story of the Roman Empire is confined to a single first generation. Would love to see Caracalla and his era depicted, and when is someone going to do Justinian and Theodora - now that's a story!

Yep I would love to see another 'Rome' series too. However, if that is not going to happen -yet anyway- let us have a film by all means

Originally Posted by Spear Dog

Loved ROME and watch it on DVD every couple of years.

Why a movie? They should go with another series - the 2 hour format is so yesterday and a waste of money - they'll spend as much making a movie as they would for 2 or 3 series. It's not like the story of the Roman Empire is confined to a single first generation. Would love to see Caracalla and his era depicted, and when is someone going to do Justinian and Theodora - now that's a story!

The problem is they rushed the series to end prematurely, it's like the first season went at one pace, and then they were told the second was to be the last and had to finish what could very well be up to I don't know, 6 seasons maybe, to only 2, you can notice after the middle of the second season, it's almost like each episode can be a season on its own, especially if you think that the entire season 1 is only about Julius Caesar. Thus:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

1 Caesar.
2 Pursuit of the traitors.
3 Rise of Augustus.
4 Split between Augustus and Mark Anthony.
5 Mark Anthony and Cleopatra (or Mark Anthony in Egypt).
6 The Fall of Egypt and Series Finale.

It would be cool if they did a Rome series focused on the life and times of Marcus Aurelius; there was certainly plenty of warfare in that era to keep a modern audience entertained.

Set in Germany? It's already looking bad.

Originally Posted by Stavroforos

Set in Germany? It's already looking bad.

As far as Im concerned its a change from all the plots involving Britain. And really who needs to see the played out Athenians or cowardly Macedonians.

And really. That timespan involved massive Roman campaigns, with far reaching explorations, and a massive defeat.

I for one would love to see my Cherusci forefathers(fathers family is from near Teutoburger Wald) vs the Batavian mercenaries from Noviomagum(lived there for 15 years).

Would also love to see the charcters back.

Kevin McKidd in 2010 -

"The film will not this year but next year, in all likelihood. This summer more precisely. The money needed for its production is largely harvested. The script is ready. The desire is there. Let's cross our fingers! "

As to whether other players will be there, he told us: "All the actors whose characters are not dead will return. Everybody really wants to participate in the film, hoping that the planning of some and others can match, which will perhaps not be easy. "

James Purfoy and Kevin McKidd 2013 -

McKidd and I had lunch the other day, and I said to him, "Have you been asked to do Game Of Thrones?" And he said, "I'd never do it. Because they stole our ******* show." He worked out that if Rome had run for the entire seven seasons that it should have run, we would only have finished it last year. And he feels that HBO did Game of Thrones instead of us, so they stole our show. I kind of agree with him. I won't be doing Game Of Thrones, even if they ask me.

So maybe best not to hold your breath..

However;

An attempt was made several years ago by Rome showrunner Bruno Heller to get a spin-off movie off the ground, but this project never made it out of development hell. HBO are currently developing a fresh TV adaptation of Robert Graves's novel I, Claudius (not related to the 1970s BBC mini-series) which some are citing as a spiritual successor to Rome, but due to the much later time period no Rome actors are expected to appear.

Let us each sacrifice 12 oxes in the name of Jupiter to make it happen.

Well if it's a choice between overdone Britain and Germany I'll choose Germany, but forests and mud huts can only do that much.

Originally Posted by Stavroforos

Well if it's a choice between overdone Britain and Germany I'll choose Germany, but forests and mud huts can only do that much.

good choice

Originally Posted by Stavroforos

Well if it's a choice between overdone Britain and Germany I'll choose Germany, but forests and mud huts can only do that much.

Trouble is, any "historical" movie set in ancient Germania will inevitably feature extensive spruce forests (which didn't exist back then, at least not at the altitudes where people lived; they're a product of reforestation during the modern age), and/or be filmed in British Columbia. IOW totally clichéd and historically inaccurate. I don't think even Rome would avoid those mistakes; even RTW and RTW 2 had them.

Originally Posted by saxdude

I like Parthia, why can't it be in Parthia? does it not fit the timespan?

Same problem as with Germania; most adaptations get them wrong - you'd be hard pressed to find a reasonable amount of people who actually look like Parthians (and not like Mongols or Native Americans) and can do horse archery (also, we really don't want them speaking Arabic, modern Persian, or - God forbid - Turkish). Also difficult for political reasons (although hiring a lot of Kurds as extras shouldn't be difficut).

Originally Posted by athanaric

Trouble is, any "historical" movie set in ancient Germania will inevitably feature extensive spruce forests (which didn't exist back then, at least not at the altitudes where people lived; they're a product of reforestation during the modern age), and/or be filmed in British Columbia. IOW totally clichéd and historically inaccurate. I don't think even Rome would avoid those mistakes; even RTW and RTW 2 had them.

I guess it doesn't help that the most famous engagement in Germany was an ambush in a forest, lol.

Originally Posted by Stavroforos

I guess it doesn't help that the most famous engagement in Germany was an ambush in a forest, lol.

Indeed, but it was a beech forest. Meanwhile both Gladiator's and Rome 2 TW's "Germania" are actually set in the (Canadian) Taiga.

Along the frontier there was interesting "stone buildings" locations like Trier or the huge garrissons of Xanten, or Noviomagum and the interresting dynamics of such places amids semi-civilized occupied and the enemy across the river.

And surely the focus will be on Rome allot as well.