stephaniedraven.com » ancient history http://stephaniedraven.com Modern Mythology with a Sexy Edge Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:21:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The NYT on the new Spartacus series http://stephaniedraven.com/2010/02/03/the-nyt-on-the-new-spartacus-series/ http://stephaniedraven.com/2010/02/03/the-nyt-on-the-new-spartacus-series/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:42:53 +0000 Stephanie Draven http://stephaniedraven.com/?p=1265 The New York times has an interesting story on the upcoming Starz Television Show, Spartacus. They seem to imply that it's going to be all sex and gore. Maybe that's not a bad thing. I'm sure there are other lessons that the writers could have taken from HBO's Rome, but this is what they zeroed in on:
The show’s creators were also fans of “Rome,” and they say they learned two important lessons from that series. One was not to spend a fortune on building sets. (“Spartacus” relies instead on green-screen technology and C.G.I.) And the other was that their story line needed, like that of “Rome” to be character driven.

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