Her entire village is taken into slavery, and she is sold to Lentulus Batiatus ( Ian McNeice). The Gaul woman Varinia ( Rhona Mitra) and her village are attacked by the Romans. However, in contemporary Latin, the meaning of “Imperium“, empire, just meant area where one exercises power. (Two of the more noticeable omissions from the new adaptation are the "I am Spartacus!" scene and the reunion of Spartacus and his wife after the battle.) The miniseries is shown as a story a woman narrates to her son, who are later revealed to be Spartacus' wife and son.Ī notable piece of dramatic license has Spartacus' son born exactly at the moment Spartacus dies in battle.Īs Marcus Crassus and Pompey Magnus are being proclaimed co-consuls, the announcer calls Rome an Empire, when it was still a Republic at the time. The plot, setting, and costumes are nearly identical to those of Stanley Kubrick's 1960 version however, this adaptation follows Howard Fast's novel more closely than does Kubrick's film. It is based on the 1951 novel of the same name by Howard Fast. It aired over two nights on the USA Network, and stars Goran Visnjic, Alan Bates (in his final television appearance), Angus Macfadyen, Rhona Mitra, Ian McNeice, Ross Kemp and Ben Cross. Spartacus is a 2004 North American miniseries directed by Robert Dornhelm and produced by Ted Kurdyla from a teleplay by Robert Schenkkan.
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