I just found the new trailer for the film adaptation of Rosemary Sutcliff’s classic children’s novel, The Eagle of the Ninth. I can’t wait to see the film!
Month: January 2011
《失落的第九军团》的幕后花絮 | Chinese article on the making of The Eagle film
2世纪的大不列颠,有两个男人,一个是主人,一个是奴隶,他们一起展开了一场致命的冒险之旅,甚至跨越了已知世界所划分出来的界线,共同付诸的是一个危险重重且令人非常着迷的最终诉求,不断地将他们推至忠诚、背叛、友情、憎恨、欺骗和英雄主义的边缘地带,继而交织出了一段来自于罗马帝国的史诗传奇……《失落的第九军团》改编自罗斯玛丽·苏特克里夫(Rosemary Sutcliff)所著的一本经典的同名小说,那还是在20世纪末的时候,作为英国最顶级、最优秀的电影制片人之一,曾获得过奥斯卡提名的邓肯·肯沃西(Duncan Kenworthy)注意到了一个比较特别的现象,似乎有一种故事类型很久不曾在大银幕上露过面了,那就是有着高度的冒险情结的历史题材,肯沃西回忆道:“从我还是一个小男孩的时候起,我就已经读过苏特克里夫的关于欧洲中世纪以及罗马帝国统治时期的大不列颠的所有小说了,都是我的最爱,尤其是这部《失落的第九军团》——我还记得当时是在《四个婚礼和一个葬礼》(Four Weddings and a Funeral)的拍摄现场,我是这么对我们的导演迈克·内威尔(Mike Newell)形容这本小说的,我把它称之为‘我的童年时代的心之所向’。随后,内威尔告诉我,他的一个孩子此刻正在读这本小说,也喜欢得不得了,直接导致我又重温了一遍原著,并再一次意识到,这里面讲述的是一个多么令人激动且很容易引起共鸣的故事,包括人物、主题和情感,即使是到了今时今日,仍然是如此地生动、鲜活——正是从那一刻开始,我给自己定下了一个目标,那就是迟早有一天,我要把它拍成一部电影。
… is the start of a Chinese article on The Eagle film. Running it through Google Translate helps to some extent, but ….
“Ninth Legion Lost” behind the scenes
A piece of history like the enigmatic 2-century Great Britain, two men, one is the master, one slave, and together they embarked on a deadly adventure, even across the known world carved out of the line, put together is a dangerous heavy It is very fascinating, and the final appeal, continue to push them to the loyalty, betrayal, friendship, hatred, deceit and heroism of the edge of the area, and then woven out of a Roman epic from legendary … … “Lost Chapter IX Corps, “adapted from 罗斯玛丽苏 Turk Reef (Rosemary Sutcliff) written by a classic novel of the same name, that was in the late 20th century when, as Britain’s top, the best filmmakers, one of Oscar nominations have been received Deng Kenkenwoxi (Duncan Kenworthy) noted a rather special phenomenon, seems to be a type of long story on the big screen has not been seen, and that is has a complex history of high risk subjects, Kenworthy recalled: “I was a little boy from the very beginning, I had already read about the European Middle Ages, Clive Souter and Great Britain during the reign of the Roman Empire all the novels, and are my favorites, especially in this “lost the ninth Legion” – I remember in “Four Weddings and a Funeral” (Four Weddings and a Funeral) to shoot the scene, so I was the director of our 迈克内威尔(Mike Newell) to describe this novel, I call it ‘my childhood to the heart of the’. After that, Newell told me that he was a child at the moment is reading the novel, who likes to have incredible, I review the direct result of the original again, and again realized, there is the story of a how exciting and easy and evocative stories, including characters, themes and emotions, even to this day still is so vivid and fresh – it is from that moment on, I set myself a goal, that is, sooner or later, and I want it made into a movie. “
SZKARŁAT WOJOWNIKA | Rosemary Sutcliff historical novel Warrior Scarlet | Polish edition
This cover of a Polish edition of Rosemary Sutcliff’s wonderful Warrior Scarlet is a new one on me! I found it via ebay.
Oscar-winning cinematographer Anthony Don Mantle speaks of his work on The Eagle film | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
One of the many exciting things about the film The Eagle from Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth is that oscar-winning Anthony Dod Mantle is the cinematographer/director of photography. I have been fortunate to see the film at a preview for cast and crew, and the photography is indeed stunning. (The film will be released in mid-February in the USA and mid-March in the UK – and throughout the world during February and March).
My enthusiasm and confidence in the film is rooted also in the knowledge that The Eagle is directed by Kevin MacDonald (who also directed State of Play, 2009; The Last King of Scotland, 2006; Touching the Void, 2003), and produced by Duncan Kenworthy (who also produced Love Actually, 2003; Notting Hill,199; Four Weddings and a Funeral, 1994). Both of them are passionate about Rosemary’s work.
Anthony Dod Mantle has given an interview to VisonARRI, the biannual international magazine of ARRI Rental and Post-production Enterprises who, with partners, supplied key camera equipment for the location filming in Hungary and Scotland. It is an intriguing article, and I am sure very informative for film specialists who understand, but I am struggling:
Rosemary Sutcliff’s Warrior Scarlet in critic Julia Eccleshare’s Top Ten Children’s Books
Warrior Scarlet by Rosemary Sutcliff is recommended by Julia Eccleshare, children’s books editor of the Guardian newspaper, as one of her Top Ten Children’s Books in Babyccino Kids, ‘an international lifestyle website for modern mums’:
… true burning Warrior Scarlet … was the very colour of courage itself. No woman might wear the colour, nor might the Half People who came and went at the Tribe’s call. It was for the Men’s side.
Warrior Scarlet, published in 1957, is indeed a wonderful historical novel, illustrated by Charles Keeping. Of the story, Julia Eccleshare writes:
Rosemary Sutcliff had an exceptional ability to bring the past to life; in Warrior Scarlet it is the Bronze Age. Drem needs to kill a wolf to become a man of the tribe. How he first fails and then succeeds in doing so despite his withered arm is a moving story about overcoming adversity.
Julia Eccleshare compiled 1001 Children’s Books: You Must Read Before You Grow Up,


