HBO's "Rome" to go Bigscreen?
 

According to Reuters, the series creator of "ROME" has stated that there has been talk and movement to the series returning as a feature film.

It doesn't give many concrete details, but I for one am excited at the prospects of a final return trip to Rome...

Hope this comes to fruition. :up:

I gave up on HBO after Carnivale and Deadwood were cut short so I haven't seen Rome. However, if this happens I will buy a ticket just to help send the message to revisit their other shows.

I liked Rome and looking forward to see it on big screen. :up:

This would be fucking awesome. Rome kicked ass.

I would love it. I loved Rome.

Awesome news, hope it happens!

I'm not sure how I feel about this. The series wrapped up the stories of Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo so well. Sure, you could do a movie that focuses on the early years of Augustus's reign, but without those two it just wouldn't be the same.

That said, if they make this, I will definitely watch.

This is a great idea.

Each week was like watching a movie - but with a bigger budget - we would be able to see a good battle.

who's the director... Tinto Brass?? ;)

there better be the obligatory orgy scene.

wasn't it budgeted at over 100 million dollars a season?

Yep - actually first season, not sure about 2nd season.

Yes, please.

Hopefully they can do this without ditching the entire main cast and just calling it "Rome: 10 years later" or something. And a huge part of the show is gone due to a certain character's death. Many people's storylines came to a solid conclusion, but if they can pull this off, I'll be watching.

I thought that it would have been great if the events of Season 1 were spread out over two seasons. Just because Ceasar was awesome.

Goddamn, that article is just sad....

The season layout till season 5 sounds magnificent and than it states that "HBO executives have since admitted that axing the show probably was a mistake." I fucking hate you HBO.

Ohh and that Vorenus was never shown on the pyre was deliberate... I knew he lived! :D

More Vorenus and Pullo would rock.

I'll be there day one.

"THIRTEEN! THIRTEEN!"

OH HELL YEAH.

The series was fucking amazing and I'm still pissed that HBO axxed it after only 2 seasons.

The only news better than this would be: HBO greenlights a third season for "Rome." :)

Or, "HBO announces release date for ROME on Blu-Ray."

I don't see why they couldn't bring it back. With McKidd not doing anything and Stevenson making what amounts to virtually a direct to dvd release, they appear to be available.

McKidd is doing Grey's Anatomy, Heller is doing The Mentalist, Polly Walker is doing Caprica. A lot of the key players are busy.

Probably the main reason they don't bring it back is because they probably don't have another $100 million to spend on a season of TV. Especially when they are only paying around $25 million per season of "True Blood." If they do a movie HBO wouldn't be footing the entire bill. Like with "Sex and the City" HBO only paid for about 10% of the movie, the rest was all New Line Cinema.

HBO didn't foot all of the $100 million, but they did pay enough for it to be damn expensive. They had a partnership with BBC.

Of course, they didn't. HBO paid $85 million while BBC only paid $15 million.