We’ve already seen a pretty nice trailer and a couple of posters for Kevin MacDonald’s forthcoming adaptation of Rosemary Sutcliffe’s 1954 historical adventure novel The Eagle of the Ninth, and there’s a few new images and two TV spots for you to enjoy.
The casting of Mark Strong and Donald Sutherland is reason enough to make time for this one, and Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell make up the main cast for MacDonald’s film.
The film opens in the UK cinemas on the 18th of March.
Latino Review dug these up from Focus, and very nice they look too,
And here’s a synopsis which you may, or may not choose to read
In 140 AD, two men – master and slave – venture beyond the edge of the known world on a dangerous and obsessive quest that will push them beyond the boundaries of loyalty and betrayal, friendship and hatred, deceit and heroism…The Roman epic adventure THE EAGLE stars Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell and is directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald. 20 years earlier, Rome’s 5,000-strong Ninth Legion, under the command of Flavius Aquila, marched north carrying their treasured golden Eagle emblem.
They never returned; Legion and Eagle simply vanished into the mists. Hearing a rumor that the Eagle has been seen in a tribal temple in the far north, Flavius’ son Marcus (Tatum), determined to restore the tarnished reputation of his father, is galvanized into action. Accompanied only by his slave Esca (Bell), Marcus sets out into the vast and dangerous highlands of Scotland – to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father’s memory, and retrieve the hallowed Eagle. Along the way Marcus realizes that the mystery of his father’s disappearance may well be linked to the secret of his own slave’s identity and loyalty – a secret all the more pressing when the two come face-to-face with the warriors of the fearsome Seal Prince (Tahar Rahim).
