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en-wikipedia-org-8871		The Fall of the Roman Empire (film) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6463	742	77	The Fall of the Roman Empire is a 1964 American epic film directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston, with a screenplay by Ben Barzman, Basilio Franchina and Philip Yordan. Filming was initially set in February 1962,[11] with the production design for the Roman Forum being placed under construction under Veniero Colasanti and John Moore's supervision.[12] However, Heston had disliked Yordan's script for the film.[13] At the premiere of El Cid in Madrid, in the following December, Heston told Bronston associate Michael Waszynski that he was uninterested in starring in The Fall of the Roman Empire. In April 1963, Mann explained to the Los Angeles Times that while the film was not a direct adaptation of Gibbon's volume series, the focus on a fifteen year period from Marcus Aurelius' reign to Commodus' death was backed by historians as "the turning point in the history of the empire and by concentrating our story on it we can keep the same group of characters within the range of our drama."[15] Having selected a focal point for the film, screenwriter Basilio Franchina was hired for his broad knowledge of the period while Ben Barzman would handle the actual writing of the script.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8871.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8871.txt