Neil Marshall set out to make “Centurion” to be “bloodthirsty and violent”!

In a new interview over at Chud.com, Neil Marshall talks about his new film Centurion, his influences and guilty pleasures, and an upcoming project he started working on entitled Burst.  Centurion, set in 117 A.D,  is about a legion of Roman soldiers sent out to rescue their general behind enemy lines.  Led by Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds), the soldiers face off against a savage group of Pict warriors in northern Britain.  Though the film sounds a lot like Saving Private Ryan, in the new interview, Marshall claims he was more inspired by western films like Rio Grande, Fort Apache, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.  If you are a fan of Marshall’s previous work, you might want to read this interesting interview with this talented director.  You can read the whole interview here.

Below, I have listed some of the highlights of the interview:

–  Two of Neil Marshall’s guilty pleasures include Excalibur and Waterworld.

– Though he did not set out to make one, he says this is his most political film.

–  Although he has written everything he has directed, he is not opposed to directing another writer’s script.

– His next film is about spontaneous combustion, entitled Burst. It is going to be shot in 3-D (I can only imagine)!

– He is both excited and terrified to shoot in 3-D.