08-09-2010, 07:52 PM
According to the IMDB 'The Eagle of the Ninth' has been renamed 'The Eagle' and its release date put back to February 2011. Presumably this was because the handful of people who saw 'Centurion' might be put off by a film with a similar story! :roll:
So are we to presume from that, that in 'The Eagle' the pila will not be used safely!
Judging by the poster, it already looks like the comic artist has made a couple of amendments to her kit!
Graham.
Quote:Not just the "return of Imperial Leather" but also of the film's Star not wearing a helmet so as not to hide his good looks.A similar device used in 'Sharpe' who even on the rare occasions he did wear a hat, never wore the correct headgear presumably because the makers thought he would look daft. Full marks then for the makers of the old version of 'Ivanhoe' who encased star Robert Taylor in the correct face hugging mail for the period rather than the usual floppy balaclava!
Quote:they carry pilum in Eagle Of The Ninth, as opposed to spears in Centurion. According to on-set reports, the film makers could not find a way to use the pilum safely so opted for spears even though they knew this to be incorrect.
So are we to presume from that, that in 'The Eagle' the pila will not be used safely!
Quote:Imperial leathermmm..... sounds like a brand name! :wink:
Quote:Anyhow the Roman's don't look to bad, now we have to teach them how their enemies are supposed to look like...
Judging by the poster, it already looks like the comic artist has made a couple of amendments to her kit!
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
