What Would You Do? The Eagle is a forthcoming film adaptation of the 1954 historical adventure The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff . Directed by Kevin Macdonald from a script by Jeremy Brock, the film is set in the second century AD and tells of a young Roman officer's search to discover the truth about the disappearance of his father's legion in the north of Britain. The story is based on the legend of the Ninth Legion. The film stars Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell , Donald Sutherland and Mark Strong . Film is due out on February 25, 2011. Watch the trailer after the Jump. A Roman epic adventure, based on the classic novel, Eagle of the Ninth, the film is set in the dangerous world of second-century Britain. In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila (Channing Tatum) arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the comm