Gubernator Curtius - mortuus est

Regarding the Thames estuary, Conrad's narrator Marlow points out in Heart of Darkness that it has 'has been one of the dark places of the earth', and goes on to expound on the thoughts of Romans in the early days of their occupation of Britain.
What a movie it would make, eh? The rogue governor, Curtius, upriver somewhere around Henley or Oxford, the newly arrived agent in early Londinium chartering a boat to take him into unknown marshlands and tributaries harboring hostile tribesmen; Curtius doing all the Celtic nasty stuff like wicker men, human sacrifice and stagshorn dances.
I'd do the dialogue in Latin, with subtitles, like Derek Jarman did in Sebastiane.

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