British comics artist Simon Bisley, best known for his 1990s work on ABC Warriors, Lobo and Sláine, has been tapped by Magnolia Pictures to create poster art for its upcoming feature Centurion. This is the first time Bisley has created a piece of art for a motion picture. The poster featuring the film’s main characters played by Michael Fassbender and Olga Kurylenko.
Centurion stars Fassbender, Dominic West, Kurylenko, David Morrissey, Noel Clarke, Riz Ahmed, JJ Field, Liam Cunningham and Imogen Poots. It is directed and written by Neil Marshall.
Magnolia Pictures will release Centurion on August 27, 2010
About Centurion:
Centurion, a survival thriller set in early AD Britain, finds Quintus, the sole survivor of a savage raid on a Roman frontier fort, joining General Virilus’ legendary Ninth Legion to march north and wipe out the terrifying tribes known as the Picts. When the Legion is attacked and Virilus seized, Quintus struggles to survive behind enemy lines with a small band of soldiers in a race to save their general and evade capture, torture and certain death.
