Neil Marshall to enter 'Eagle's Nest'

The writer-director of 'The Descent' reveals his forthcoming slate, with war, sorcery and horror on the way.

Jul 14 2005

Neil Marshall is currently riding high on the critical and commercial success of 'The Descent', so we thought we'd catch up with the writer-director to find out more about his next project, 'Eagle's Nest'.

A World War II action thriller previously pitched as 'Die Hard' meets 'The Remains of the Day' (click here for our original story on the subject), the film is actualy more a tribute to the action adventure classics 'Where Eagles Dare' and 'The Eagle has Landed' the director explained:

'It's about a hypothetical rescue attempt on Rudolph Hess after he parachuted into Scotland in World War II. The 'Die Hard' scenario comes in when the rescue attempt goes wrong and the German unit takes Hess to a country castle in the borders of Scotland.

'The gamekeeper has to do the John McClane thing and keep them there until help arrives – he has to stop them escaping and picks them off one by one.'

The 'Dog Soldiers' director also exclusively revealed that he is planning to make a medieval heist movie called 'The Sword and the Fury'.

'It's about what happens 30 years after King Arthur dies and Excalibur falls into the wrong hands. Guinevere then hires a band of thieves to steal it back - it' a proper, gritty romp.'

And as for sci-fi horror 'Outpost' (also mentioned in our previous article), Marshall told us that a deal has been done with Pathe to make the film, but it's currently on the back burner.

'I don't want to get tired of doing horror films and doing three in a row would just be a bit too much,' he explained. 'I've done two aspects of horror, I now want to go away and do something different and come back to the genre with renewed vigour at a later date.'

Rest assured we'll keep you posted on all three projects, and to read our full interview with Mr Marshall, simply click here.

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