They had written a Sylvester Stallone action picture.
Assassins would prove somewhat underwhelming to critics and disappointed at the box office. It would undoubtedly have been a money spinning gig for Lana and Lilly Wachowski but they would be left dissatisfied with the handling of their screenplay which didn’t retain the same complexity by the time it had been put to screen. Even so, it had enough to be enjoyable to fans, and that one remains a film I’ve always found underrated. They’d had their start though, even if it never quite suggested the potential for the siblings to become a pop cultural phenomenon before the century was out.
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Early on in Domina, Sky’s new drama about the life of the Roman Empress Livia Drusilla, there is a scene in which the 15-year-old Livia finds the future Emperor Augustus trying to force himself on her. She stops him by grabbing hold of his, ahem, imperial jewels – and the implication is that her hand will metaphorically remain there once she has married him, keeping the first ruler of the world’s greatest empire under her vice-like control.
As always in dramas of Imperial Rome, sex and politics are interdependent. “It is a political drama, but it’s told from the point of view of the wives, the daughters, the mothers, the sisters and the mistresses at a time when policy came to be made in the bedroom and not the Senate of Rome,” the show’s creator, Simon Burke, told the Radio Times.