The Last Legion - Connections To Other Films

Connections To Other Films

Colin Firth, Aishwarya Rai and Rupert Friend have all appeared in adaptations of the Jane Austen novel Pride & Prejudice. Firth appeared in the BBC miniseries that has been considered the closest adaptation of the work itself, portraying Fitzwilliam Darcy. Rai has appeared in a modernized version, Bride and Prejudice, portraying the character based on Elizabeth Bennet. Friend appeared in the 2005 version, where he portrayed Mr. Wickham.

Both Kevin McKidd and Ray Stevenson, who starred as the Roman soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo in the drama series Rome, have gone on to play characters in historical King Arthur film adaptations; McKidd in The Last Legion and Stevenson in King Arthur (2004). Both are set in Britain after the Romans left. Valerio Massimo Manfredi has commented on several similarities between the two films (and his book), such as a band of heroes escorting a boy of special status and a battle set at Hadrian's Wall. John Hannah later played Quintus Lentulus Batiatus, a Roman owner of a Gladitorial ludus in the Starz Television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand

In this film Thomas Sangster plays a version of Uther Pendragon. He earlier played another Arthurian character — young Tristan in Tristan & Isolde (2006).

The piece of the film's premise that deals with the missing ninth legionnaires has since been adapted into its own movie, The Eagle (2011), telling the story of the missing ninth legion as warriors who fell to Pict warriors behind Hadrian's Wall.

Many of the films actors have appeared in HBO's fantasy television series Game of Thrones including; Owen Teale, James Cosmo, Ian Glen, Thomas Sangster, Robert Pugh and Nonso Anozie.