Nine New Stills from Neil Marshall's 'Centurion'
Seeing it today as part of a SIFF triple-feature
Photo: Magnet Releasing
In a couple of hours I am about to embark on a Seattle International Film Festival triple-feature taking in The Dancer and the Thief (Spain's 2009 Foreign Language Oscar submission), Alejandro Amenabar's Agora and finally, Neil Marshall's Centurion, a film of which I have just added nine new stills to the RopeofSilicon gallery.
Marshall directed the excellent claustrophobic horror The Descent in 2007 and after his awful 2008 entry, Doomsday, I am hoping Centurion is a bounce back to the spectacular.
Centurion is set during the war between Roman soldiers and Pict tribesmen during the 2nd century Roman conquest of Britain and stars Michael Fassbender as Quintus Dias, a Roman centurion and son of a legendary gladiator who leads a group of soldiers on a raid of a Pict camp to rescue a captured general (Dominic West). The son of the Pict leader is murdered during the raid, and the Romans find themselves hunted by a seemingly unstoppable group of the Pict's most vicious and skilled warriors, led by a beautiful and deadly tracker (Olga Kurylenko), who are hell bent on revenge.
Magnet Releasing will release Centurion in theaters on August 27 in a limited roll-out and they have yet to release a domestic trailer, but I have included the international trailer directly below. You can browse the entire RopeofSilicon gallery for the film right here.
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This looks good!
I am terribly jealous of you. I have to wait until AUGUST! Are you going to post a review this week, or when it comes out?
"Live united or die divided"………….I'm in. This looks really good.
So he's a 2nd Century Al Sharpton?
Please tell us if "Agora" is worth watching. I love Amenabar, but this one hasn't been getting much good buzz… or much buzz at all.
Looks not very good
This film was actually pretty decent, it has an excellent British cast (and Olga Kurylenko). My friend and I went into it expecting little and we both enjoyed it a lot. Fassbender's performance shows he could move on to leading man Hollywood territory with ease.
I like this. Looks exciting. First time I've gotten excited about a movie for awhile. Maybe this is a good prelude for Fassbender before Jane Eyre.
I would see this at SIFF but the screening times don't work out for me.
I saw Agora last week. It is getting a very limited release. I thought it was a very intelligent, interesting and relevant film. I would like to know what you thought of it Brad. I also am curious as to what you thought of The Dancer and the Thief as I am a huge fan of Ricardo Darin.
Looks like the kiera knightly king arthur movie.
This movie flopped so badly in the UK last April. The so-so reviews didn't help, but Warner Bros. made no effort to market the film. It's a British film but no one here even knew it was showing. It does look a bit stuffy.
It didn't flop, it just didn't open on enough screens to get to the top ten. The average-per-screen was pretty strong, given the complete lack of advertising!