Two days before you get your drink on, raise a cup to dear departed Caesar. By the way, it’s been 56 years since Joe Mankiewicz’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s play and nine years since the facts of Marcus Aurelius’s reign were twisted for drama’s sake (in a film I quite like, regardless). When are we going to get another great Roman epic, or better yet, THE great Roman epic? A solid revisiting of the Bard’s material would be good enough, I guess, though I never saw the Jeremy Sisto TV thing.
