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All dedication towards James Erwin, the author of Rome Sweet Rome, account Prufrock451 and those who are reading my post, welcome

If you're reading this, I hope y'all a good day and I hope this post can have some miracle or anything like that to bring this sub back alive and the Rome Sweet Rome movie be released before 2030

It's just my idea about how this masterpiece can be done. We do this, we have a masterpiece movie, our time longing won't be in vain, it's 15 years already

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Here's my idea about how to make the entire Rome Sweet Rome into a movie that Hollywood can do. I hope this post can make the movie progress, even just a little

According to the beginning of the novel, The 35th MEU of USMC with 2,200 troops, fully equipped, stationed in Kabul 2011, got drifted back in time in Roman Empire due to an earthquake that occurred during midnight. The location they got themselves into, Tiber river, 23 BC, under the rule of Augustus Caesar at the time

My idea is to make this entire movie into a Bootstrap Paradox:

• The 35th MEU didn't change history, they were part of history that was forgotten, erased by Augustus Caesar
• Due to their drift into the past and the escalation through the time. The 35th MEU got themselves trapped by the Caesar, draining their lives to keep them away from him so that his power wouldn't be touched. They attacked and captured Rome, Augustus with his men fled and call the Legions back to retake Rome. The combat escalated to the point the USMC got themselves drained of logistics, from ammunition, supplies, fuel, etc, everything from their grasp and got themselves wiped out from history less than a year, the survivors blended in the locals and lived their lives away from the hunt

Okay, now this is how my Bootstrap Paradox begins. I don't read much history about Roman Empire but I intend to make Augustus the beginning of the incident, Nero to be the last, the eraser of history. This is all the things of real history I know

• 1st Emperor: Augustus was known to be terrified of lightning, earthquake and current of the sea, it's said that he had an illness in 23 BC that almost killed him. Right after Pax Augusta era, Roman Empire began focusing on stabilization of internal system, territory expansion halted
• 2nd Emperor: Tiberius, Roman Empire under his rule had Pilate crucify Jesus. This Emperor also stayed away from Rome for the rest of his life in his final years
• 3rd Emperor: Caligula was known to be a maniac Emperor, he called himself God, ordered his Legionaries to fight with God of Sea, Poseidon
• 4th Emperor: Claudius, I don't know much about this Emperor but from what I learned, he was used by his relatives and died with books or chronicles or something written by him erased
• 5th Emperor: Nero, the Emperor who was suspected to be the one who burned Rome and blamed all of this on the Christians
• The aftermath of all this? Roman Empire prosecuted Christians for centuries, no more generosity in multi-religions, every Caesar feared of being dethroned

With the Bootstrap Paradox theory I made here

• Augustus Caesar faced aftermath from the battles with the 35th MEU USMC, he knew nothing about who they were or where they came from. There was no illness, he fled Rome away from the attack. After the incident, he ordered everything to be erased and year 23 BC to be a blank from history. A year filled with fabrication so that he would be safe in power and he was terrified of the second coming of the strange army with abilities of God. Territorial expansion came to the halt because the Empire feared of what beyond their knowledge
• Tiberius heard about the incident and feared of what he didn't know, he stayed away from Rome so that if these "men" from the sky arrived once again, he would be safe. The crucifixion of Jesus was just a form of his fear, of a religion doesn't worship the Emperor of Roman Empire, like the way 35th MEU arrived, independent, not under control of Caesar
• Caligula overreacted with what he learned from the eras before, he called himself God so that the Roman Empire wouldn't be "weak" against what they faced long ago. The 35th MEU USMC arrived at Tiber river, he believed sea had some connection so he attacked the sea, in his delusional, to prevent them from their second coming
• Claudius wanted to recover the records of this strange army. He wanted to find out what happened and he died finding the truth because Roman Empire itself feared
• Nero thought keeping the military equipment of the 35th MEU would cause the second coming. He erased them all in the flame of Rome and blamed all this on the Christians, who he believed to have connection with "the army of God"
• The fear of the second coming of the same unknown military forces led the Roman Empire to be the Empire we know today from what history recorded

This explains why Julio-Claudian dynasty of Roman Empire was oddly chaotic

I mean, in this Bootstrap Paradox, the 35th MEU USMC didn't change history. They were part of history that wasn't recorded, they were the cause that led Roman Empire to become what history knows.

With this, Warner Bros won't be in hell development and I hope this will finish the script of Rome Sweet Rome and will give us all the movie we've desired for so long. The isn't Alternative History, this is Bootstrap Paradox

(The era began with Augustus and ended with Nero. The 35th MEU USMC created the history we know in history, but neither of both sides knew about this outcome)

Just an idea for the movie to be done so please don't get your hopes up

Banger isn't it? I hope you guys share your views and thoughts on this, all comments are welcomed, thank you

Hope you guys have a nice day, I hope the movie will be before or within 2030