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As mentioned, Immortals is shooting now; Universal will release the film on November 11, 2011.
Tarsem’s War of the Gods Gets Additional Cast and a New Title: Immortals | /Film 2010
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The plot should hint at their (non-extraterrestial) origins, and be left open-ended so that the mythos of The Immortals is kept alive.
New Highlander Movie 2005
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Among them seem to have been the famous "Immortals" -- a picked body of 10,000 footmen, always maintained at exactly the same number, and thence deriving their appellation.
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'Immortals' - full of nicotine patches and gum in the hope of helping him get over his cravings for cigarettes.
Elites TV 2010
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The well-known battalions, termed the Immortals, came next, comprising the gross of the army, and forming the centre and rear.
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The ten thousand elite infantrymen whom Herodotus calls the Immortals perhaps a mistranslation of the Persian for the Followers were superbly trained.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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The ten thousand elite infantrymen whom Herodotus calls the Immortals perhaps a mistranslation of the Persian for the Followers were superbly trained.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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For two days the troops of Xerxes, even his great Ten Thousand, who were known as the Immortals, hurled themselves upon the Greeks, but they accomplished nothing, for they fought in a narrow place, where their greater numbers were of no help to them; and their spears were shorter than those of the Greeks, so that they were easily thrust through before they could come close enough to harm an enemy.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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King surrounded by his regiment of guards, ten thousand of them who were called Immortals, messengers sprang forth screaming the order to charge.
The Ancient Allan Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Tardiest of the Immortals are the beloved Hours, but dear and desired they come, for always, to all mortals, they bring some gift with them.
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878
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