Centurion Trailer with Michael Fassbender!

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Woot! Finally the trailer from Centurion with Michael Fassbender! It brings to mind his intensity in 300. No release date yet, though.

Hat tip: My New Plaid Pants (who's almost a bigger Fassie fan than me)

New Pic of Michael Fassbender in Centurion

Empire magazine has this new image of Michael Fassbender in Centurion, due out in spring of 2010. Michael Fassbender plays Quintus, part of Rome's reputedly 'lost' Ninth Legion, who in Centurion are deep in hostile Pict country.

Said Fassbender, "There's certainly a lot of head-chopping. I guess you can always make modern-day parallels, to the occupation of Iraq. But it's the idea of someone who believes in an ethos, becomes disillusioned and comes to his own sort of beliefs. So there are parallels, and it's interesting when you take it out of our timeframe and stick it back 2,000 years."

First pic of Michael Fassbender in Centurion

Empire magazine has some shots from the set of the upcoming film Centurion. This one shows Michael Fassbender on the run from some savage Picts.

...the story sees a Roman legion venture north of Hadrian's Wall and encounter some very unfriendly natives. For another, it may feature dudes in leather skirts and helmets, but it's also a horror movie, with the Romans being picked off in the woods. And thirdly, it's the second film in a row for Marshall that centres around a team venturing through a wall into Scotland and really regretting it.

Centurion is due out later this year.
Listen to a short interview with Michael on set where he discusses Centurion and the upcoming Jonah Hex:

Michael Fassbender has also recently been attached to Sebastian Faulks Birdsong which is set in WWI and sounds similar to the English Patient with an affair with a married woman. Birdsong starts filming in August

New Film for Michael Fassbender

Fassie Fans rejoice! Michael Fassbender has signed on for what looks to be a very cool new movie.

Michael Fassbender, Dominic West and Bond girl Olga Kurylenko are girding their loins for Neil Marshall's Britain-set sword-and-sandals thriller "Centurion," for "Slumdog Millionaire" producer Christian Colson of Celador Films.

The movie, billed as a thriller set during the Roman invasion of Britain in A.D. 117, tells the story of Quintus Dias, sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, who marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.

Wonder if they kept their sandals from '300'?