The film of The Eagle of the Ninth, due for release in September 2010 in the USA and UK stars Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland, Mark Strong, and Tahar Rahim. The  Facebook page has photos, videos, and stories about the film, which now has a realease date in the US  (September 24) but not here in the UK . According to current web postings the film is:

” … helmed by award-winning director Kevin Macdonald … based on the best-selling classic 1954 novel by Rosemary Sutcliff, and … set in the dangerous world of second-century Britain … In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila (played by Channing Tatum ) arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca (Jamie Bell), Marcus sets out across Hadrian’s Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia – to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father’s memory, and retrieve the lost legion’s golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth. Donald Sutherland portrays Marcus’ uncle Aquila, who has retired in Britain; Mark Strong is cast as Guern, an ex-soldier who holds crucial information about the Ninth. (Click to see more photos from the film)”.