It's Kevin McKidd himself we confirmed: the movie "Rome" should indeed be done. ... The question is when ...

In promoting full Season 6 Grey's Anatomy  in London, Kevin McKidd has agreed to talk about the movie Rome, more than ever: "The film will not this year but next year, in all likelihood. This summer more precisely. The money needed for its production is largely harvested. The script is ready. The desire is there. Let's cross our fingers! "

As to whether other players will be there, he told us: "All the actors whose characters are not dead will return. Everybody really wants to participate in the film, hoping that the planning of some and others can match, which will perhaps not be easy. "

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This snippet is from Kirsten's latest Q and A she did with Kevin about  Owen / Cris  from Grey's Anatomy.  SO,  just in case you missed it because you are not a Grey's fan or It got lost in the rest of the answers I'll post it again....

Rome for big screen ROME star Kevin McKidd is in between seasons seven and...

ROME star Kevin McKidd is digging out his toga for a movie version of the sword and sandals epic. The 36-year-old hopes filming will happen during a break from his role as Dr Owen Hunt in Grey's Anatomy.

He said: "Everybody in the cast whose character still lives - they've all said yes, we're absolutely up to doing it.

"The tentative plan is to try and get it done next summer, in between seasons seven and eight of Grey's.

"There's still that intent. I think about 50 per cent of the financing is there. We're almost there."

McKidd, from Elgin, Moray, shot to international fame as Lucius Vorenius in the joint BBC and HBO production.

His character appeared to die in the series final scenes but for the movie he will be resurrected.

(c) 2010 Sunday Mail; Glasgow (UK). Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.

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Rome Movie : Working title Bona dea
Currently looking for a director
Kevin will be attached if the project moves from in development status
Possible filming 2011 during Grey's Anatomy Hiatus
Will include the character Vorenus and is set a few years after the last episode of the HBO TV series  ~ we will find Vorenus hiding out in Germany

The Bear and The Bow (Brave)
Intended release Christmas 2011 (3D Pixar)
Possible name change to "Brave"
Voice Work ~ started now in March 2010
Craig Ferguson , Billy Connolly, and Kevin will be a band of Scottish clansmen

Percy Jackson (series)
was released on the 12Feb 2010
Current box office Domestic $83,328,333 Worldwide $203,828,333      
Fox has the option to purchase the rights to the next book in the series, option has not been exercised yet.

Bunraku
Scheduled release 2010
Kevin plays an effeminate, master killer (who's almost like a Fred Astaire tap-dancing his way through the movie) of the movie who’s hunting down Josh Hartnett’s character under the instruction of Ron Perlman’s character, Nicola.
It's a hybrid of a western and a martial arts film. The world it's set in is almost circus-like in the feel of it and it's all origami. The whole universe is constantly folding paper to create a cityscape or interiors of rooms or the sunrise
In February they held test screenings of the movie
Kevin advised : about to ASR for this - so nearing completion

Catwalk
Kevin is attached to this project (not rumored as stated on IMdb) however there still might be a filming schedule conflict with Grey's Anatomy. Waiting update from Kevin whether this production will take place or not

Other projects still in development or on hold
1. Faith (building finance)
2. The Cone Gatherers
3. Bank Robber Diaries
3. Dylan (still on Hold)

Television
Currently Filming Grey's Anatomy Season 6

ROME (Movie)

Question: Will Kevin McKidd be signing on for the Rome movie? Obviously, it won’t be a Rome movie without him, but I like certainty. —Liz
Ausiello: If there is a Rome movie, McKidd has every intention of being a part of it. “I hope it happens,” he tells me. “There is a definite pulse and some momentum on the project at the moment. We’re just trying to get the director nailed down. All the [actors whose] characters are still alive on the show are very keen to get back. And that is all that matters really.” He adds that the film would likely shoot during his 2011 Grey’s Anatomy hiatus, which would serve the movie well, he says, since the action is “set a few years from where the series [ended]… We’re meant to be a little older and wiser.”
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Bear and the Bow (Pixar)
Possible re-title of this production

UPDATE: Following our initial report on the domain name and trademark registrations, Disney has also gone ahead and registered a few trademark applications specifically for DISNEY PIXAR BRAVE. Here’s an example. Note although the application was filed on March 12, it takes a few days for it to become accessible to us.

They did it to Rapunzel. Big signs are pointing to them doing it to Secretariat. And now it appears the next victim may be the Disney/Pixar original fairy tale The Bear and the Bow.

Once upon a time, it appears that Pixar director Pete Docter ’slipped up’ and referred to a project they were working on titled Brave. After much speculation then and what appeared to be much ado about apparently nothing, The Pixar Blog quoted a reliable source as noting Brave is simply an internal project name for The Bear and the Bow, as cryptic as one it may be. A Blue Harvest if you will.

But a recent move by the Disney Trademark department might suggest otherwise. Granted ‘Brave’ could be applicable to most anything and certainly may have nothing to do with the film from Pixar Animation Studios, but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office experienced a flurry of Brave applications very recently — we counted fourteen (so far) — covering the full gamut of products and applications. Here’s just one example.

If we seem like we might be jumping the gun — er, bow — on this one, we won’t deny it. But while we often get the clue when Disney goes to register domain names, the recent activity is very reminiscent of the many trademark applications Disney also recently made for Tangled and Disney Tangled. For those of you playing along at home, however, it turns out that Disney did in fact register BRAVE-MOVIE.COM and BRAVETHEMOVIE.COM back on October 31, 2009 and to-date has registered ZERO domain names related to The Bear and the Bow according to our sources.

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Mckidd Ready For More Rome

GREY'S ANATOMY star KEVIN MCKIDD has confirmed he's planning to take another trip back to ancient Rome when his hit TV epic is adapted for the big screen.

The Scottish actor's Rome was a big hit in 2005 and 2006, but was canceled in 2008.

Now, creator Bruno Heller has completed a script for a feature-length version of the controversial drama, which also featured Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker, Kerry Condon and James Purefoy.

And MCKidd is keen to revive his violent soldier character Lucius Vorenus in the film, which is reportedly set years after the series ended.

The actor says, "It (show) was very popular when it was on TV and seems like it's become more popular since it's been taken off the air... I think it'll be a lot of fun to revisit those characters."

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by Lynette Rice

Fans of HBO’s critically-beloved (but short-lived) series Rome may not have seen the last of Vorenus and Pullo. Multiple sources have confirmed to EW that a big-screen sequel to the sword-and-sandals series is well underway. Rome creator/executive Bruno Heller — who went on to create CBS’s hit The Mentalist — has finished a script for Morning Light Productions, which financed the development and will produce the film. Series stars Kevin McKidd (Lucius Vorenus) and Ray Stevenson (Titus Pullo) will likely sign onto the movie, which picks up in Germany four years after the series ended. The next step for Morning Light is to find a director and a studio, since HBO Films won’t be involved.

Rome the series aired from 2005-07 and took place during Ancient Rome, beginning with Caesar’s invasion of Gaul and continuing with the rise of the first Emperor Augustus. The series centered on soldiers Pullo and Vorenus, who appeared to die at the end of the series.

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Hero Complex
For your inner fanboy


This is a longer version of my story on the cover of today's Los Angeles Times Calendar section. (original post below)

If you want to know what it's like to be a television star, walk down a Los Angeles sidewalk with Kevin McKidd, who "Grey's Anatomy" fans instantly recognize as the tortured trauma surgeon Owen Hunt. If you want to know what it's like to be a movie star, listen to McKidd describe a solitary stroll he took on a New York street during the filming of "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lighting Thief."

"There's a shot where I arrive in the city and walk up out of the ocean," says McKidd, who portrays Poseidon in the modern-day adventure with gods of Greek myth. "It was one of those moments as an actor where you say, 'Wow, I am making a big movie.' There was a huge crane for this one big, long shot of me and the city skyline as I'm walking toward the Empire State building. The preliminary work was, like, two or three weeks getting the lighting just right on all of these buildings."

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