LOS ANGELES, April 28 (UPI) -- Hollywood has fallen for Boadicea, one of Britain's greatest women, in a big way -- no less than four projects are in the works about the warrior queen's life.
Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks and Icon Pictures each have scripts in production, Empire Magazine reported Wednesday, with a fourth work titled "My Country" being shopped among studios.
Mel Gibson reportedly is producing the Icon project, "Warrior," which casts Boadicea as a peasant girl who rises to military fame and posthumously is named queen.
Paramount's project is titled "Warrior Queen." Dreamworks' is "Queen Fury."
Boadicea, during the Roman Empire, led her tribe against the invaders to give the Romans their worst defeat ever in Britain. She then kept the Romans at bay for two years before they returned with reinforcements to stop the rebellion and reestablish Roman rule in the country.
