Críticas De Cine: `El Águila de la Novena Legión´, cartel y tráiler

This Spanish blogger is hopeful that The Eagle will be a good adventure movie, unimpressed by the two stars (especially Channing Tatum), and grumpy about the change of name from the book. He seems to imply that in Spain the film will be entitled The Eagle of the Ninth.

Todavía está bastante reciente `Centurión´ (Neil Marshall, 2010) y sin embargo ya se estrena otra de romanos, esta vez menos serie B y más en plan serio, o al menos eso parece. `The Eagle´ es el título de este film, que en España será traducido como `El Águila de la Novena Legión´. Me imagino lo que habrán pensado los traductores: “es que si la titulamos sencillamente `El Águila´ la gente va a pensar que es una película de aves en lugar de una de romanos.” Esperarán que les demos las gracias y todo, muy satisfechos de sí mismos. Me pregunto por qué esta gente no se buscará un trabajo como dios manda…  Read More »

The Eagle | Film of The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff | Film Movie Trailer

 

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Kevin Macdonald Director of film The Eagle at the UK Cheltenham Festival on October 9th 2010

At the coming Cheltenham Literature Festival Kevin Macdonald, director of the forthcoming The Eagle will explore with others “the historical reality and the modern invention behind this (swords and sandals) cinematic genre.

Source: Swords, Sandals and Celluloid: Mary Beard, Kevin Macdonald and Maria Wyke

Film Centurion not based on The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff

The film The Eagle, not Centurion, is based on Rosemary Sutcliff’s Roman novel The Eagle of the Ninth. I mention this because it was wrongly claimed in the UK Guardian newspaper when the film first came out earlier this year that the film Centurion was indeed based on Rosemary Sutcliff’s book. I wrote to put them right! And it bears repeating, since Centurion is due out in the States and has just come out now on DVD:Read More »

Film, Books, TV, Radio | The Eagle (of the Ninth) | Rosemary Sutcliff

Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92), author of The Eagle of the Ninth book, now a film due in February 2011 to be called The Eagle, as well as a TV and radio series, wrote some sixty children’s books, historical novels, and stories. This blog reviews and covers all the books by Rosemary Sutcliff: every book for children, adults and young adults, and related TV, radio and films (movies) of the books. Read More »