Rome

[Docbrown777]

Rome follows the general idea of history from that period. It isn't exactly accurate but it gives a general idea.

Not unlike those Cate Blanchett Elizabeth movies. It's a good movie in a historical context but don't go using it to study for a test.

 

[Snaploud]

It's a great show, but I'm glad it didn't continue. Their planned story-arc ("the rise of the messiah in Palistine") didn't exactly fill me with anticipation.

 

[Admiral_Young]

It was an awesome show...I loved it despite it's historical inaccuracies and compressed timeline. I still hold out hope that we will get a movie, I doubt that will happen though even though there have been rumors over the past year or so.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

It's a great show, but I'm glad it didn't continue. Their planned story-arc ("the rise of the messiah in Palistine") didn't exactly fill me with anticipation.

Wow, I had no idea that was their next plan. I guess it makes sense, since they were foreshadowing it in season 3, but holy shit that's a compressed timeline. For those who don't know, G. Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. Jesus Christ is said to have been crucified around 30 AD. That would mean that Vorenus and Pullo would have been wandering around causing shenanigans for 70+ years (Actually, the Gallic Wars ended in 51 BC, so the show would have started 80 years before it ended).

I realize they already compressed about 25 years into two seasons, but that would push it a lot. I hope they wouldn't get rid of our favorite characters, but that might be the only way things would make sense, to be honest. Right now, at least, the show was a good retelling of the fall of the republic and the rise of the Empire. Some of the historical figures were among my favorite characters. Cicero, especially, was really cool (in a slimy kind of way where the power of his tongue outweighs his other attributes). Young Octavian was neat and I thought the guy who portrayed Brutus was really cool in the first season.

 

[marillion]

Loved the show and was saddened by the ending of it.. There have been rumors about a feature film, but with the industry where it is now, I imagine that's more of a pipe dream than anything..

 

[Spot's Meow]

I love this show.

I actually wrote a paper for a history class about the historical accuracy of the first season of Rome. I had positive feelings about it - there was usually some nugget of truth to almost everything in the series, but of course liberties were taken in character stories. But that's to be expected. There were a lot of missing pieces that they had to fill in somehow.

 

[Garak]

Loved Rome. Adored it.

I heard something about a movie as well:

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=63928

Entertainment Weekly has learned that a big-screen sequel to HBO's "Rome" is moving forward.

"Rome" creator/executive Bruno Heller ("The Mentalist") has reportedly finished a script for Morning Light Productions, which financed the development and will produce the film.

The magazine adds that series stars Kevin McKidd (Lucius Vorenus) and Ray Stevenson (Titus Pullo) will likely sign onto the movie, which picks up in Germany four years after the series ended.

The next step for Morning Light is to find a director and a studio, since HBO Films won't be involved.​

I'd see it in a heartbeat, hope there's some truth to it and it sees the light of day.


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[TheGodBen]

The magazine adds that series stars Kevin McKidd (Lucius Vorenus) and Ray Stevenson (Titus Pullo) will likely sign onto the movie, which picks up in Germany four years after the series ended.

Spoiler: season 2

Ummmmm... Please tell me that I'm not the only one that sees a problem with this.

 

[WHF]

The magazine adds that series stars Kevin McKidd (Lucius Vorenus) and Ray Stevenson (Titus Pullo) will likely sign onto the movie, which picks up in Germany four years after the series ended.

Spoiler: season 2

Ummmmm... Please tell me that I'm not the only one that sees a problem with this.

I always

Spoiler: season 2 finale...

thought that Vorenus survived. They didn't show his death.

 

[Admiral Shran]

The magazine adds that series stars Kevin McKidd (Lucius Vorenus) and Ray Stevenson (Titus Pullo) will likely sign onto the movie, which picks up in Germany four years after the series ended.

Spoiler: season 2

Ummmmm... Please tell me that I'm not the only one that sees a problem with this.

No, you're not the only one.

 

[TheGodBen]

I always

Spoiler: season 2 finale...

thought that Vorenus survived. They didn't show his death.

Spoiler: ending

They may not have shown Vorenus' death, but he was on his deathbed and Pullo did say he died. That was a great ending for his arc, to bring him back now with the excuse that they never showed him dying would undermine the whole thing and feel very cheap.

 

[Snaploud]

I always

Spoiler: season 2 finale...

thought that Vorenus survived. They didn't show his death.

Spoiler: ending

They may not have shown Vorenus' death, but he was on his deathbed and Pullo did say he died. That was a great ending for his arc, to bring him back now with the excuse that they never showed him dying would undermine the whole thing and feel very cheap.

Spoiler: random possibility

maybe Vorenus is actually the Messiah (or was saved by the Messiah)

 

[WHF]

I always

Spoiler: season 2 finale...

thought that Vorenus survived. They didn't show his death.

Spoiler: ending

They may not have shown Vorenus' death, but he was on his deathbed and Pullo did say he died. That was a great ending for his arc, to bring him back now with the excuse that they never showed him dying would undermine the whole thing and feel very cheap.

Spoiler: ending

It would have been easy enough to show Vorenus dying. They decided not to. I think the ending was intended by the writers to be an open question in case they were able, at some point, to make more episodes.

This makes me think of the ending of Freaks and Geeks and the commentary with that final episode on the DVD. It was pointed out in the commentary that the ending was fitting because the audience could decide for themselves what happened to everyone. The ending of Rome was ambiguous enough to allow the same thing. In my mind certain things happened after the final episode. I don't think that anything I assume to happen is contradicted by anything that happens in the episode. I also don't think that what you assume happens is contradicted either.

 

[TheGodBen]

I also don't think that what you assume happens is contradicted either.

But it would be if they made this movie.

 

[Gaith]

A great show. More discussion of the rumored film here.

 

[Admiral_Young]

We have no idea how that particular character will appear in the film...there are ways of using characters when they are a certain way previous. This is the first time that I've read actual news on the film...hopefully they're able to get this going.

 

[exodus]

LONG LIVE TITUS PULLO!!!!!

 

[Gaith]

The producers have made it quite clear that they reserve the right to declare "that character" still alive in any future movie. We saw his eyelids gently fall, which is not the same as seeing him dead. And the fact that Pullo says he didn't make it proves nothing, as the rest of that speech is one big lie.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Yep and it could easily be explained that Pullo was lying to us when he said that...which wouldn't be out of character for him.

 

[Checkmate]

I always

Spoiler: season 2 finale...

thought that Vorenus survived. They didn't show his death.

Spoiler: ending

They may not have shown Vorenus' death, but he was on his deathbed and Pullo did say he died. That was a great ending for his arc, to bring him back now with the excuse that they never showed him dying would undermine the whole thing and feel very cheap.

Spoiler: Wut?

I just finished watching the episode. Vorenus was never shown to die (and had, in fact, survived far longer than he should have), and the only time Pullo said he died was when he was lying to Octavian's face. There is absolutely no evidence that Vorenus is dead, and the fact that Pullo showed absolutely no signs of sadness or grief when he was lying to Octavian, plus his smug attitude afterwards, implies heavily that he survived.