'Ironclad' Poster Is Ace!

Published on February 3, 2010 by Martyn Conterio · View Comments

39255 “The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there”. Wise words that filmmakers have taken to heart over the years. It enables dramatic licence and allows revisionism that has some academics going apoplectic with rage. Remember the fuss kicked up by U571 when politicians in the UK were going bananas because according to Jonathan Mostow’s submarine flick, the Americans found the Enigma machine and saved the world!

Whether it’s Birth of a Nation, Alexander Nevsky, Spartacus, Braveheart, Troy or even Alexander, producers, writers and directors have plundered our world history to bring forth long, epic films with big battle scenes and dubious attention to historical facts. For example, the real Queen Isabelle, featured in Braveheart, was nine years old when William Wallace was on the rampage…so if he did have an affair with her…see what I mean?

Ironclad, is a new film set in merry old England during the reign of King John. Starring James Purefoy, Paul Giamatti, Charles Dance, Brian Cox, Jason Fleming and Jamie Foreman, this blood-soaked action adventure film could be spectacular!

The new campaign poster is pretty ace! “Blood. Will. Run.”

The premise is based on the seige of Rochester Castle by the evil King John and the Knights Templars (the costume is a dead giveaway) who fought tooth, nail and sword to defend it. It’ll be fun seeing Giamatti playing a bad guy; he was rather great in Shoot ‘Em Up! and this film shares the same producer, Rick Benattar. There was an online clip smuggled on to the net a few weeks ago with bad sound and vision, so expect something proper very soon when the film gets a show reel going for the European Film Market next week.

Expect the gore and mutilation quota to be high for this. The claret is gonna flow, remember?

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