Mikaela,
I agree, many of the potential shows are kinda iffy IMO. Stuff like Scarlett Johannsen as a gladiatrix and Lucy Lawless as the owner of a gladiator school are pure fanboy fantasy movies where neither woman is likely to wear much.
Kerry,
Yes, the thought of Daniel Craig as Hadrian and some pretty boy toy as Antinous in a hot sexy clench makes me all wiggly as well.
Wow, thanks for posting all that information. I've read some of Saylor's books and I really enjoyed Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome. I didn't know he had a website and interesting one at that. Thanks for that link.
I was aware of the movie version of MEMORIES OF HADRIAN as I was curious to see what John Boorman is doing of late. Nobody on IMDB's msg board for "Memories of Hadrian" is really discussing the sexual angle of the film. Someone posted it would be great for Zach Efron to play Antinous, but others pointed out he'd turn down the role because of his Disney image.
Funny thing is that I'm reading the book
Long Way Down, the story of the charity motorcycle trip from Scotland to South Africa done by Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman, and in the book, Charley mentioned calling his dad (John Boorman) to check in and fill him in on the trip so far and his father was in a good mood because he'd gotten the OK for his movie about Hadrian. It didn't really click until I read this blurb.
Zac Efron would be awesome in the part, IMO, since he basically looks like a young Jared Leto - who played Hephaestion to Colin Farrell's Alexander. He's done with Disney, isn't he?
I had read that AGORA was having problems finding a distributor in the USA. Hope they get one. Are the studios worried about a religious group boycott?? I think not.
I would hope not. I'm like
Mikaela, I never thought they'd make a movie about her since what happened makes early Christians - including one who is now a saint - look extremely bad.
But thankfully, truth will out.
Some of those other projects sound very dicey. I wish HBO would ad another season of ROME instead of just a two hour movie. I guess it was an expensive series. Evidently ROME isn't very popular in Italy as they don't like these English lads playing their Italian ancestors. [/color]
Really? I heard that those in Rome loved the series ROME because not only was it filmed there, the extras were played by Romans and the majority of the minor roles were played by Italian actors and even the craftsmen for some of the props were from Italy. Yeah, I'd love another season of ROME as well, but it was a very expensive series. The ratings for it were always better than for HBO's series ENTOURAGE, but ENTOURAGE had a much cheaper overhead since it's filmed in modern times in L.A. so when the time came to axe a series, HBO went with ROME sadly.