Viggen Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 Move aside "Spartacus: Blood and Sand", it's time for a real Spartacus movie. Graham King's GK Films has announced via Twitter/Variety that they're developing a new feature film called Spartacus, that will focus "on the rebel leader who took on the Roman Empire for 2 years." It will throw out all the other fictional storylines (*ahem* Starz) and "rely instead on more historic facts of Spartacus as a revolutionary." The project is actually on a pitch they acquired from 300 co-writer Michael B. Gordon (also credited for the G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra story). However, no director is attached and the project is developing in the early stages... ...read the full article at Firstshowing.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursus Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 This will be either great, or it will suck. Depends on how they play it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DecimusCaesar Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 It'd be interesting to see where they go with this, although I'd like it if film companies took more risks and started covering other events and people from ancient history, instead of doing lots of Julius Caesar, Spartacus, and Cleopatra movies (they did it with Agora, Centurion, the Eagle). Still sounds interesting though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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