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1.<\/a> Kevin Macdonald (Touching the Void<\/i>, The Last King of Scotland<\/a><\/i>) will start shooting The Eagle of the Ninth<\/a><\/i> in August; the film concerns \u201ca wounded Roman soldier and his loyal Celtic slave who try to solve the mystery of the Ninth Legion, a brigade of Roman soldiers that vanished after heading into the untamed Highlands of Scotland 15 years earlier.\u201d \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/a> Coincidentally, Neil Marshall (The Descent<\/i>, Doomsday<\/a><\/i>) is already making his own<\/i> movie about the Ninth Legion; it is called Centurion<\/a><\/i>, and it is far enough into production that the filmmakers recently released a making-of video and a photo of former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko made up to look like \u201ca savage-looking Pict warrior woman\u201d. \u2014 Empire<\/a><\/i>, Rotten Tomatoes<\/a><\/p>\n

3.<\/a> Bond girl Gemma Arterton has been cast as the demi-goddess Io in the upcoming remake<\/a> of Clash of the Titans<\/a><\/i> (1981). Meanwhile, Cinesite has been hired to provide some of the \u201cmajor creature animation\u201d \u2014 using computers, of course, rather than the stop-motion techniques that living legend Ray Harryhausen used on the original film. \u2014 Empire<\/a><\/i>, VFXWorld<\/a><\/p>\n

4.<\/a> Sean Bean will play Zeus, Kevin McKidd will play Poseidon, Pierce Brosnan will play Chiron, Uma Thurman will play Medusa and Melina Kanakerides will play Athena in Percy Jackson<\/a><\/i>, an adaptation of the best-selling children\u2019s novel The Lightning Thief<\/i>, which is set in the present day and concerns the half-human children of the gods. \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i>, Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> (x2<\/a>)<\/p>\n

5.<\/a> The Gotham Group is developing a film based on Steven Sherrill\u2019s novel The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break<\/i>, which concerns \u201cthe mythical half-man, half-bull minotaur who was supposedly slain by Theseus 3,000 years ago and now lives a lonely life in a Wichita trailer park, making ends meet as a short-order cook in a rundown diner.\u201d \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"