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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Neil Marshall’s Centurion

A specialist in the genre fare, we can expect Marshall to once again deliver on the action front – plus this has Fassbender, an actor worth keeping close tabs on.

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#65. Centurion

Director/Writer: Neil Marshall
Producers: Christian Colson and Robert Jones
Distributor: Rights Available.

The Gist: Set during the Roman invasion of Britain in A.D. 117, this tells the story of Quintus Dias, sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, who marches north with General Virilus’ legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.….(more)

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Noel Clarke and David Morrissey

Why is it on the list?: A specialist in the genre fare, we can expect Marshall to once again deliver on the action front – plus this has Fassbender, an actor worth keeping close tabs on.

Release Date/Status?: Oddly enough, this film was presented at the Cannes Market and yet still hasn’t been picked up. Should find a U.S. distributor once they companies realize that, despite it belonging to  this one might be a moneymaker.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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