For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
Kate De Goldi is due to discuss the work of writer Rosemary Sutcliff, best known for her historical novels such as The Eagle of the Ninth series, on Saturday morning at 11.45am NZ Time (10.45pm in UK) radio on 5th February. Wellington (NZ) author, publisher and broadcaster Kate De Goldi is the 2011 winner of the New Zealand’s top award for children’s writers and illustrators, the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award.
Rosemary Sutcliff’s imaginings – and those of the the film-making experts – for The Eagle of the Ninth are translated into costumes for the film The Eagle. Those involved speak about it here.
With The Eagle film of Rosemary Sutcliff‘s The Eagle of the Ninth historical novel now shortly to be released in the US (February 11th), and also emerging in film festivals in the UK and Ireland, it is time to recall why the director Kevin Macdonald cast Americans as the Romans.
“It was always my concept for this film that the Romans would be Americans,” says Macdonald.
“That was my first idea about the movie and it still holds up whether or not we had any money from America, that would have been my approach.” The Eagle of the Ninth is based on a 1950s novel by Rosemary Sutcliff and stars Tatum as Marcus Aquila, an idealistic Roman soldier, whose uncle, Aquila, played by Sutherland, epitomises the confidence of the occupying army. Read More »
The first public showing of The Eagle film, based upon Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth, is in Glasgow at the end of February (Sunday, Feb 27th). The organisers write:
Oscar-winning, Glasgow-born director Kevin Macdonald is one of the most successful filmmakers that Scotland has ever produced with an uncanny ability to make intelligent, mainstream movies that delight, entertain and enthrall. The Eagle is one of the most keenly awaited movies of 2011 and it gives us immense pleasure to host the UK premiere as the closing night gala of the Festival. …. Macdonald has long been a fan of Rosemary Sutcliff’s classic novel The Eagle of the Ninth. Read More »
I am still trying at every opportunity to nudge people who mis-spell Rosemary Sutcliff (sic) with an E as Sutcliffe (wrong!) to get it right and put it right. Hence today on Twitter:
And hence also I have been in touch today with the producer of the new The Eagle film to alert the film financiers Focus Features that they too have got it wrong on this page about the film!
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 