Gladiators, are you ready?;
“THE ROMAN ENTERTAINMENTS make Vegas look like nothing,” states Robert Rodat, creator of epic new show Those About To Die. “There has never been anything in history in which the size, scale, scope and allocation of resources has come even close. So it’s a marriage made in heaven: the grand entertainments and Roland Emmerich.”
Over the course of his career, Emmerich has rebuilt the pyramids (twice), blown up the White House (twice), and ended the world (three times). He doesn’t just bust blocks. He obliterates them. So it should come as no surprise that his first directorial venture into prestige TV should focus on how one of history’s most powerful civilisations entertained the masses —with thrilling chariot races at the Circus Maximus, and brutal combat at the Colosseum.