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Raffaella De Laurentiis is the daughter of Dino de Laurentiis. In 1981, she produced Conan the Barbarian, the first major hit of Hollywood action hero, Arnold Schwarznegger. After four years, she produced sequel of the movie, Conan the destroyer.  It was Rafaella, who suggested Doug Lefler’s name. Lefler already worked in an epic movie Dragon Heart: A new beginning2 with Rafaella.

Dough Lefler was in a book store when he got a call on his cell-phone from Rafaella. She told him about the movie that she and her father were working on. That night, Doug read the script and agreed to direct the movie.

Last Legion is the first action adventure movie of Colin Firth. Till now, Collin Firth has been successfully acting in various romantic comedies such as, Bridget Jones’ diary, Four weddings and a funeral, Shakespeare in love.

Thomas Sangster played the character of young Romulus Augustus. He and Firth have already worked in two movies: Love actually, Nanny Mcphee. Both Sangster’s parents are actors and seeing them, he also decided to become an actor. Sangster is 15 years old but he played the character of Romulus Augustus, the twelve year old emperor.

Producer Martha De Laurentiis was worried about Thomas’s size and whether he would be able to carry a sword and fight with it. Thomas proved her to be wrong.

Useful Links:

http://www.allmovieportal.com/m/2007_The_Last_Legion.html

http://www.samoviemag.co.za/reviews/lastlegion.html

http://www.firth.com/lastleg.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Legion

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462396/