The Producer Of 10,000 BC + The Writer Of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN = OLYMPIA!!

Merrick here...
Asger Leth will direct OLYMPIA for Columbia, brought to us by 10,000 BC producer Mark Gordon. Leth directed GHOSTS OF CITE SOLEIL, which is about the haunting of a visually obscure, generally overpriced, heavily merchandised French circus that...oh...it's about the last days of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Hatian government. OLYMPIA is scripted by SAVING PRIVATE RYAN's Robert Rodat (who also wrote THE PATRIOT for Emmerich & Devlin); his work was subsequently rewritten by Gavin Hood (who's now directing X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE). OLYMPIA...

is set against the backdrop of the ancient Olympic Games in Greece as war waged between Athens and Sparta.

...says THIS ARTICLE in Variety. When I first saw the Variety headline referencing the title of this film, my mind immediately jumped to Leni Riefenstahl's 1938 documentary OLYMPIA chronicling the 1936 Olympics/NAZI propaganda jamboree in Berlin. If you've never seen it, the movie strangely compelling & a tad unnerving. It's available for purchase through amazon HERE, or it can be rented through NetFlix (HERE). Check it out! And, no, I don't get kickbacks for referring you to these sites.