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Roland Emmerich ‘Those About To Die’; Peacock – Deadline

Peacock has handed a straight-to-series order to a gladiator drama directed by Roland Emmerich.

The NBCU streamer has given the order to Those About to Die, inspired by Daniel Mannix’s eponymous nonfiction book.

The series is a large-scale drama set within the spectacular, complex and corrupt world of gladiatorial sports in Ancient Rome. It introduces an ensemble of diverse characters across the many layers of Roman society where sports, politics and business intersect and collide.


Deadline understands that the production budget is around $140M and that further production partners across Latin America, Middle East and Asia are expected to be added before the start of production in Italy in the first quarter of 2023.

Moonfall and Independence Day director Emmerich will helm and exec produce via his Centropolis Entertainment banner. Oscar nominee Robert Rodat, who wrote Saving Private Ryan, will write and exec produce.
 
Anthony Hopkins Joins Peacock’s Gladiator Series ‘Those About To Die’ – Deadline

The two-time Oscar winner has joined Those About To Die, the epic period drama from Roland Emmerich for Peacock. Hopkins, who won Oscars for The Father and Silence of the Lambs, will play Emperor Vespasian in the drama, which scored a straight-to-series order last summer.

Production will begin at Cinecitta Studios in Rome in March.

Hopkins’ Vespasian, the Emperor of Rome and head of the Flavian bloodline, is battle tested, a rural upstart who claimed his throne after victory in a bloody 10-year civil war. He is aging and is despised by the Patricians jockeying for position in the Empire and looking to supplant his heirs to the throne the first chance they get.
 
Not even Hopkins can get me interested in an Emmerich production.
 

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