Sometimes even the newest news is simply old news. Such is that case with recent "discovery" from EW's Hollywood Insider that HBO's epic series Rome officially has a movie adaptation in the works.

In October of 2003, the BBC and HBO agreed to co-produce a grand and ambitious new drama series that would recount the tale of the birth of the Roman empire. Fitting for such an epic and complex story ...

Across two sprawling season, as epic in scope as Gladiator or Ben-Hur, Rome never lets its feature film scale overwhelm the intimacy of the human drama. That drama is what really makes this series ...