The Eagle of the Ninth film based on the Rosemary Sutcliff novel features in the The Guardian newspaper. The makers of Centurion will be not be amused that Kevin Macdonald’s film will, Charlotte Higgins thinks, be ‘more thoughtful and decorous’; nor that the main photo of the full page article about both films is this still photo from The Eagle of the Ninth. Me? I am delighted, of course! Read More »
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Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth and the North-East of England
The Eagle of the Ninth (now a 2010 film) is ‘perhaps’ Rosemary Sutcliff’s ‘finest book of historical fiction’ claims Alan Myers, and she is ‘one of the most distinguished children’s writers of our times’. The Eagle of the Ninth ‘exemplifies the psychological dilemmas that Rosemary Sutcliff brought to her novels’.
In The Eagle of the Ninth film Douglas Henshall had ‘best time’ with Channing Tatum
Rosemary Sutcliff book The Eagle of the Ninth is becoming a film (movie), produced by Notting Hill producer Duncan Kenworthy. Dougas Henshall plays a chieftain of a British tribe, chariot racing with Channing Tatum as hero Marcus.
“He was lovely, a really nice guy and so down to earth with no ego at all. No hissy fits, no tantrums, he just got on with his work … I have a small part, the first fifteen minutes, Read More »
The Eagle of the Ninth Film (2010)
The film (movie) The Eagle of the Ninth based on Rosemary Sutcliff’s famous historical novel of the same name is directed by Kevin Macdonald . (The story is described here). The film produced by Duncan Kenworthy stars Channing Tatum, Donald Sutherland, Jamie Bell, Mark Strong, and Tahar Rahim.Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff children’s book The Capricorn Bracelet combines short stories
As a long article about elsewhere has alluded to, Rosemary Sutcliff book The Capricorn Bracelet used the technique, also used by Rudyard Kipling, of inter-connected short stories. The stories are connected by a family heirloom passed down through successive generations of a Roman military family serving in northern Britain at Hadrian’s wall: the bracelet of the title is for distinguished conduct awarded by the Second Legion, known as the II Augusta, and inscribed with the legion’s capricorn emblem. Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 