[jalisco555]

I was a huge fan of the show and hated the way they telescoped events in the second season. Also, it's interesting to see how they actually meant for the show to play out. I hope they can pull off this film, it would certainly be better than 90% of the dreck that's in the theaters now.

[Tax-chick]

“Heller looking for movie version of ‘Rome’”

The headline implies that the movie version exists, but has been misplaced. If it helps, Mr. Heller, I usually find the tv remote between the sofa cushions.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Bruno Heller says he wants to produce a theatrical wrap-up to his critically beloved and prematurely canceled HBO drama "Rome."

It's already been done.

I somehow doubt that a movie about the Pax Romana under Augustus Caesar would be very interesting since nothing really happened during that time, up until Claudius was born.

[this is my country]

I didn’t take to the Soprano’s and some of the other shows on TV, but Rome was the first series I looked forward to watching every week. When they let it out that they were going to cancel I wrote letters to no avail. It was my kind of show.

Eventually, I got interested in the Tudors, although it took a couple of episodes to ensnare me.

[webschooner]

I loved the show Rome, and was really disappointed they cancelled it. I loved Deadwood also (yes the language was bad, but if you could get past that, it was brilliantly done and funny as heck).

I’m about to cancel HBO — nothing worth watching on there anymore that I’ve seen, and they don’t cycle on very many new good movies.

[livius]

I loved Rome, but I don’t have HBO and I watched it on video from Netflix. If you don’t mind waiting until it comes out on video, that’s a solution for some HBO series. I also watched The Sopranos that way.

That said, it was unfortunate that they cancelled the Rome series so early on. I guess it was expensive to make and didn’t get huge viewership. I thought it was great, though, and every effort had been made to make it accurate. On the videos, you can click on a scene and get more historical details about it, btw. The videos also have great stuff about how the series was made.

[pabianice]

“Rome” was too expensive to continue. That’s why it was canceled. Second, keeping the huge cast and crew together between seasons was, yes, too expensive. There is almost no chance of doing a movie now with the original cast and crew.

[Sherman Logan]

the original series outline for "Rome" next called for the hedonistic Roman leaders to deal with the rise of a certain problematic rabbi -- a story line that would have put a whole new spin on the Greatest Story Ever Told and potentially bring "Rome" a larger audience.

Unless I'm missing something, this would have been impractical. If any of the original characters were still around when Christ started his mission, they would have been over 100, a tad old to play major roles in the events.

If they were going to shift eras, they'd have to start up new characters anyway, so what diff if the old actors were unavailable?