Though it's still the largely quiet period between Christmas and New Year, the team behind Kevin Macdonald's Roman action drama The Eagle Of The Ninth has stopped forcing down turkey leftovers long enough to put out the first images from the film.
Starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Mark Strong and Donald Sutherland, ** ** is adapted from Rosemary Sutcliffe's 1954 novel, which saw a young Roman man named Marcus Aquilla (Tatum) venturing out to discover what happened to the Ninth Legion, commanded by his father, which vanished in the wilds of barbarian-heavy Scotland 15 years previously.
With a Celtic slave (Bell) along for company, Aquilla must disguise himself as an occultist to investigate whether any of them are left alive, and to reclaim their titular totem.
Macdonald has been shooting Eagle in Hungary and Scotland, with a release date planned for sometime in 2010, where it may face a smack down with Neil Marshall's horror-fuelled Centurion, which draws from the same subject matter.
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