Centurion: Sun interview with Neil Marshall
Submitted by kls010 on Sun, 27/12/2009 - 20:30.
The Sunday Sun has an interview with Centurion director Neil Marshall. Read the full interview on the Sun website.
...The temperatures had plummeted when cameras first rolled in the Highlands of Scotland on the Pictish and Roman battle movie Centurion.
For the first scene, the cast and crew were 3,000ft up a mountain in -18C temperatures and a snow storm that would test a polar explorer.Neil said: “It was all downhill from there, especially for the actors. They all had to do a scene floating down rapids in an ice-cold river.
“They were in agony afterwards and one of them even went into shock, turned green and projectile vomited everywhere . . . but he soon recovered and was back to work the next day.
“The whole shoot was physically and mentally draining, but at the same time I thoroughly enjoyed being out in the driving snow, howling wind and often horizontal rain. I don’t like to make things too easy for myself, or the crew!”Film fans will have to wait until next year to see Centurion, an epic about the Romans’ Ninth Legion, who are said to have vanished after heading into battle with the Picts.
The gruesome, exciting thriller, set in AD117, is set to be the fourth blockbuster crafted by Neil, who shot to fame with the werewolf horror Dog Soldiers, which he followed up with The Descent and Doomsday.
The story centres on a soldier – played by Michael Fassbender, who is the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort.
After managing to return to the Roman forces he’s then sent out again, with orders to wipe out the Picts and kill their leader...
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