Cannes 2009 Market Must: Centurion

A promo reel for Centurion from genre director Neil Marshall is being presented in the market with a screening tomorrow. When Marshall hit the scene with The Descent, he won him plenty of attention from onlookers but the bigger question is: a grouping of actors in Dominic West, Michael Fassbender and Olga Kurylenko will garner plenty of interest from European buyers but and will it find a suitor for the U.S? I’m thinking yes if it ends up looking like Apocalypto. 

In AD 117, a fearless Roman Legion heads into the dark depths of Northern Britain to conquer land for the Roman Empire.
But to do this, they must defeat an elusive enemy, the infamously savage and terrifying tribesmen known as the Picts.
SynopsisAD 117. The Roman Empire stretches from Egypt to Spain, and East as
far as the Black Sea. But in northern Britain, the relentless onslaught
of conquest has ground to a halt in face of the guerrilla tactics of
an elusive enemy: the savage and terrifying tribesmen known as the
Picts.
Marcus Dias, sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort,
marches north with General Titus Virilus’ legendary 9th legion, under
orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the earth and destroy their
leader Gorlacon.
But when the legion is ambushed on unfamiliar ground, and Virilus
taken captive, Marcus faces a desperate struggle to keep his small
platoon alive behind enemy lines, evading remorseless Pict pursuers
over harsh terrain, as the band of soldiers race to rescue their General,
and to reach the safety of the Roman frontier.