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Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko Joins Centurion

Bond girl Olga Kurylenko, who steamed up the screen in last year's Quantum of Solace, will star in Centurion, a British-based thriller set during the Roman invasion of England in AD 117. Billed as a "swords-and-sandals" adventure, Neil Marshall, who directed the horror-thriller The Descent, will helm the film. Also joining the cast are Michael Fassbender and Dominic West.

The film will follow the story of Quintus Dias, the only survivor during a raid who emerges with a mission to wipe out a faction called the Picts. Marshall also wrote Centurion.

Another Quantum of Solace Bond girl, Gemma Arterton, is picking up post-Bond roles, too. Arterton will star in The Disappearance of Alice Creed, a modern day kidnapping-themed thriller. Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston also star in the film, which is currently shooting on the Isle of Man. Marsan and Compston will play a pair of kidnappers who develop and execute a meticulous plan where they snatch Arterton's rich character. Things quickly fall apart, with all three of the key characters proving to have their own twisted agenda.

—The ARTISTdirect Staff
02.11.09

Tags: Olga Kurylenko, Michael Fassbender, Gemma Arterton, Neil Marshall, Dominic West, The Descent, Quantum of Solace