We will shoot Jan 7-14th...and I am very excited.....This story is the backstory to the Battle...or ...Ambush ...as it were ...of the Romans at Tutenburg Forest....where 20,000 Romans were slaughtered...as they made their way thru the forest to quell an uprising near Osnabruck, Germany.....ambushed by the united tribes of Germania...
Writing the screenplay...I wanted to show what one man ...any man ...can do...if he only tries...
to make a difference...it can make all the difference in the world....and can change the world ...if he can somehow ...push thru to achieve what he must do.....of course sometimes he fails...
We should be editing in Feb '08 ...and be ready to enter the various Film Festivals in Spring of "08.....
Edward
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This ambitious film has not only history but also psychology going for it. The Roman armies usually won when they could deploy their cavalry effectively. This they could not do in the Teutoberger Forest. Perhaps Varus was overconfident in not experimenting
with different tactics. Arminius
was charismatic where Varus was not, and soldiers fight bravely for a charismatic leader.
The outcome of the battle decided the northern boundary of the Roman Empire. More importantly, the battle determined that German would develop as a
language separate from the Latin languages (French, Spanish, Italian).
--Joe Roberts, with Kristen Alexis
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