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Trawling the internet, researching libraries and databases, and occasionally from material sent to me, I discover things I did not know much about, or indeed at all! There can be more than one Discovery of the Day.
Author Rosemary Sutcliff contributes to Super Bowl XLV !
As I posted a while back, Rosemary Sutcliff – eminent writer of children’s literature and historical fiction – and her novel The Eagle of the Ninth have never until now, to my knowledge, been connected with American Football and the Super Bowl. But at Sunday coming’s Super Bowl XLV – the big American football event of the year – a TV advertisement for The Eagle film (out Feb. 11 in USA, 25th March in UK) will be broadcast. The film is based upon Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth story, indeed in several European countries, but not in the UK sadly, the film entitled The Eagle of the Ninth (in French, German or whatever …)
Some film studios are bypassing the game itself and air advertisements during the festivities before the games, when the cost is lower. This is what Focus Features are doing. Those of you football fans who find your way here can find more about the book, film and author all over this site!
Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth is a book, radio play, TV drama, film, movie and maybe a Western!
Rosemary Sutcliff’s book The Eagle of the Ninth is the basis for The Eagle film (2011) which was released on February 11th in the USA & Canada, March 25th in the UK, and has been released wold-wide in recent weeks. Rosemary Sutcliff is billed as ‘co-writer’ of the film with Jeremy Brock. The director Kevin Macdonald has spoken of The Eagle of the Ninth and the film The Eagle as ‘a Western‘. Rosemary Sutcliff loved that genre of films, although Kevin was not aware of this until I told him during one day of filming. Read More »
The German dubbed trailer for The Eagle has landed again | Der Adler der Neunten Legion
Playmobil model version of The Eagle of the Ninth trailer
There was a model here…but it has gone from You Tube!
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 