I didn’t pay attention much in high school history, and my college history professor was this crazy dude who yelled randomly, sweated profusely, and had a wicked terrible comb over. Learning anything from him was close to impossible given these distractions. So I never learned that Rome had a legion (the Ninth, I hear) that was pretty kickass but disappeared some time after Cesar’s assassination. And I guess this is what Neil Marshall’s Centurion is all about.

Empire has the first pictures of Marshall’s new period piece, and sorry, but this doesn’t look any different than any other Roman movie released in the post-300 era. Centurion follows the Ninth Legion as they try to escape a hostile Pict country. It stars Inglourious Basterds favorite Michael Fassbender as the leader of the group, Quintus Dias.

The film may still be interesting just because Marshall was the director of The Descent, one of the more messed up films to be released recently, but he was also the dude behind Doomsday. You can check the pictures out below or head over to Empire’s site to catch them in glorious High-Res.