Magnet Gets Bloody for ‘Centurion’

You get a sense that if you had to choose a crowning piece in Magnet Releasing’s 2nd edition of the ‘Six Shooter’ series that you’d want to end on a high note such as in today’s pick-up announcement. Despite only playing in market screenings, Neil Marshall’s Centurion may be a major coup for Tom Quinn. Perhaps I’m overhyping the swords and no sandals pic here, but I think they got themselves an ideal summer tentpole pic – and if I were Magnet I’d reverse their usual release order by putting a theatrical run in first and then go the VOD route. All eyes, including Quinn’s will be on the B.O return and critical reaction in the weeks after the April 23rd release in the UK.  

Written by Marshall, this takes place in the breathtaking Scottish highlands and is set during the war between Roman soldiers and Pict tribesmen during the 2nd century Roman conquest of Britain. Fassbender stars as Quintus Dias, Roman centurion and son of a legendary gladiator who leads a group of soldiers on a raid of a Pict camp to rescue a captured general (Dominic West). The son of the Pict leader is murdered during the raid, and the Romans find themselves hunted by a seemingly unstoppable group of the Pict’s most vicious and skilled warriors, led by a beautiful and deadly tracker (Olga Kurylenko), who are hell bent on revenge.