Empire have an exclusive first look at Bond girl Olga Kurylenko in CENTURION, the new movie from THE DESCENT, DOOMSDAY and DOG SOLDIERS director Neil Marshall.
From the looks of things, it’s DOOMSDAY the movie will share the most similarities with…
The movie is a relentless action-adventure set in AD 117, which Empire have worked out is some six decades before Russell Crowe took vengeance in GLADIATOR.
In the movie she plays Etain, a savage-looking Pict warrior woman…
“Etain is kind of revenge incarnate,” says the writer/director, speaking to Empire exclusively on set. “Her family were butchered by the Romans, she had her tongue cut out by the Romans, she’s had a hell of a time and she’s out for Roman blood.”
A silent lead?
Interesting.
Co-starring with Kurylenko is INGLORIOUS BASTERDS and HUNGER actor Michael Fassbender, along with Dominic West, Noel Clarke, David Morrisey, JJ Feild and Riz Ahmed.
The movie was shot in Surrey and Scotland and should be out at the end of the year.
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Looks very promising. Neil Marshall is one of the most promising directors working today. His command of genre filmmaking is unsurpassed.
Doomsday was a retrograde mess and unfortunately the makeup job on Ms Kurylenko isn’t filling me with confidence… And who is The Centurion? The man she’s after for revenge? A nice Roman lad who teaches her that not all world conquering Italians in skirts are bad? I guess we’ll watch this space…
This is 117AD in the wild north . A Pictish warrior-woman would be gnarled muscular and brutish, not smooth and pretty . If we are to have realism what’s a Bond girl even doing in the part?