Post by linebug on Mar 2, 2019 13:17:34 GMT
Reddit user The_Quiet_Earth wanted to know if they could destroy the entire Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus if they traveled back in time with a modern U.S. Marine infantry battalion. Of course, a question like that deserves a good answer and Prufrock451 had one. ...or dozens of them, actually. It what's now become known as "Rome Sweet Rome". James Erwin, the man behind Prufrock451, wrote an epic account of what such an encounter might look like if it happened. His story spanned more than 3,500 words within a week and sometime later, the post got enough attention that Warner Bros. came calling and cut Erwin a movie deal. Not everything worked out, though and Erwin was booted from the project, while his draft was rewritten by a dude that worked on Apollo 18. Not much has been heard since that happened in 2013 and I'm still waiting...
