This news is just breaking and few details have emerged so far. Deadline got the story - 20th Century Fox has optioned Arminius, a feature script by Frank Moll about the Battle of Teutoburg Forest in AD9. Wolfgang Petersen and Julie Yorn are down to produce.
Script tells the fact-based story of Arminius, a German who was trained as a Roman warrior, but who switched allegiance when the Romans tried to take over Germania. At 25, he would eventually unite disparate Germanic tribes and rally them to victory against the Roman Army in the bloody Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The defeat had ramifications that would end with Arminius losing his life, but it halted the Roman Empire’s expansion North, and became the worst loss suffered by the Romans under the reign of Augustus Caesar.