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BOUDICA Review: Olga Kurylenko’s Conquest Is All The Bloody Celtic Rage

Boudica opens on digital platforms in the UK beginning October 30 from Signature Entertainment. Black Widow and The Princess actress Olga Kurylenko has a few forthcoming screen credits with director Jesse Johnson, following their previous collaboration on 2023 crime thriller, White Elephant. Their latest pairing will arrive with Johnson’s inspired 60 A.D.-set period epic, Boudica, chronicling the legendary warrior queen’s campaign of retribution against the Roman empire. The first several minutes of Boudica makes it inherently clear what kind of film you’ll be in for if an R-rating isn’t enough of a hint. Severed necks, blood geysers, exposed innards, and all-out screaming deaths are on the menu as Caesar Augustus Nero’s (Harry Kirton) military, led by Commander Paulinus (Kris Johnson), mows down hundreds of druids on the island of Mona. The event is only the latest amid Rome’s takeover of most of Europe, with Britannia being the last, ruled by […]

BOUDICA: Olga Kurylenko Rages As The Ancient Warrior Queen In The Official UK Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Director Jesse V. Johnson continues his reign as a genre favorite with recent hits like The Beautiful Ones, Accident Man and Avengement in his rearview. One of his more recent completions now finds him dealing in the medieval arena with none other than Olga Kurylenko taking the mantle for Johnson’s Boudica, based on the real-life legend of the ancient warrioress. This historical action is the bold, bloody story of the Celtic Queen. King Prasutagus rules over the Iceni people with his wife Boudica by his side, but when he is betrayed and killed, Boudica’s kingdom is left without a male heir and the Romans seize her land. Determined to avenge her husband’s death, Boudica rallies the tribes from the region and wages an epic war against the Roman Empire. Boudica’s life and legend has been the center of other media projects before, although Johnson’s film finally marks something a little […]

BOUDICA Artwork Lends Multiple Looks At Olga Kurylenko In Jesse V. Johnson’s Celtic Sword Epic

Lee B. Golden III

I’m told that Bleiberg/Dimbort scored some great sales during EFM this month on upcoming period sword epic, Boudica, the details of which remain under wraps until the trades speak further on the matter. In the meantime, one of the biggest reveals was the key sales art which also appeared in Screendaily’s Digital Magazine over the weekend, and now we have some new sample art courtesy of the creators behind the initial artwork, MOT Creative, which you can spool through via Instagram in the embed below. Written and directed by Jesse V. Johnson, Boudica marks a reunion for the director with White Elephant actress Olga Kurylenko whose recent credits also partly include Marvel’s Black Widow, and Hulu period actioner The Princess. Set in A.D. 60 and inspired by true events, Kurylenko takes the mantle as the titular trained Celtic warrior who rules modernized and cultured Iceni alongside her husband Prastagus (Clive […]

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BOUDICA: ‘Hell Hath No Fury’ Helmer To Direct Warrior Queen Epic Later This Year

Lee B. Golden III

Action veteran Jesse V. Johnson (Hell Hath No Fury, Savage Dog, Avengement upcoming White Elephant) will shoot warrior queen epic, Boudica, in Wales this August. Johnson will direct from his own script with actress Olga Kurylenko (Quantum Of Solace, Black Widow, Sentinelle) starring in the title role. Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies at the hands of Roman soldiers, Boudica’s kingdom is left without a male heir and the Romans seize her land and property. Driven to the edge of madness and determined to avenge her husband’s death, Boudica rallies the various tribes from the region and wages an epic war against the mighty Roman empire. Pic hails from Bleiberg Entertainment and Picture Perfect; Ehud Bleiberg is producing with Johnson, with Danny Dimbort, Nicholas Bennett and Ariel Bleiberg exec producing. Bleiberg/Dimbort will […]