News > Bruno Heller Wants to Bring Back Rome!

Producer Bruno Heller wants to bring canceled HBO series Rome to the big screen.  THR is reporting that Heller is in talks to bring the over budgeted epic show back to film so he can "round that show off." The show was very well done and it is good to hear that HBO executives are finally admitting that killing that show was a mistake.

One seeming drawback to revisiting the show after its wrap was the demise of a key lead character, Lucius (Kevin McKidd). Yet Heller reveals that the character's off-camera fate was far from fatal.

"It was very deliberate that we saw him drifting away but didn't see him atop a funeral pyre," Heller said.

 If they do decide to go forward with the movie it will be great to see the concept of the third and forth season down on film, I would love to see Heller's take on that old crazy Jesus thing…

"I discovered halfway through writing the second season the show was going to end," Heller said. "The second was going to end with death of Brutus. Third and fourth season would be set in Egypt. Fifth was going to be the rise of the messiah in Palestine. But because we got the heads-up that the second season would be it, I telescoped the third and fourth season into the second one, which accounts for the blazing speed we go through history near the end. There's certainly more than enough history to go around."