After making their last movie in 1974 with The Odessa File, the legendary British independent film company, Romulus Films, mark their high profile return with Revelation, a mystical adventure thriller joining the supernatural and arcane religious beliefs with the modern cyber skills of the computer age. "I call it 'The Thinking Man's Raiders of the Lost Ark' ", says producer Jonathan Woolf, "Because it's a fantasy adventure with a truly remarkable base in reality". Director, writer and producer Stuart Urban agrees with Woolf, adding, "Revelation is very much a quest movie with real thought-provoking substance. There are hundreds of books and websites devoted to the themes we cover - the Knights Templar, the occult, the mysteries of sacred geometry in European religious sites, ancient astrology, alchemy and the secret links between the dark sciences and Christian society. Sir Isaac Newton was as committed to alchemy as he was to discovering the laws of gravity. That's in Revelation along with lots of other startling facts that have never found their way into film before until now".

Founded in 1948 by brothers John and James Woolf, Romulus Films is responsible for such landmark British films as Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1950) starring James Mason and Ava Gardner, John Huston's The African Queen (1951) starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn and the classic 'kitchen sink' dramas Room at the Top (1958) and The L-Shaped Room (1962). With thirteen Oscars, and countless other international awards to their credit, Romulus Films and the Woolf brothers discovered some of Britain's most memorable screen stars. James Woolf died in 1966 but John continued the company's good work with the blockbuster musical Oliver! (1968) and the critically acclaimed thriller The Day of the Jackal (1973). He was knighted in 1975 for his contribution to the British film industry and, after his death in 1999, his 44-year-old son Jonathan decided to use his experience as an investment banker in the City and apply his canny financial know-how to reviving the company's feature film production area.

Woolf left the City in 1993 to manage the Romulus Films investments and also trained as a corporate financier and fund manager. He continues, "Romulus had a successful film library which I managed until I put the bulk of the titles under long-term contract with Carlton who now oversee the entire back catalogue apart from Oliver!, The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File. Since starting at Romulus I was always being approached to finance movies but never thought the time was quite right to take the plunge. Then the financial dynamics changed, the British woke up to the fact that American appeal was important, and the figures looked promising as long as one clearly got the right script, the right director and the right cast".

And Woolf found the right script to spearhead the Romulus revival totally by accident as he explains. "I was tidying up my office at Christmas, 1999, and found this script lying at the bottom of a huge pile of papers. I decided to take it home for some light holiday reading and ended up really enjoying it. The script had been in the office for five years and had come with a covering letter by the writer, Frank Falco. But while I liked the script - it contained the germ of a brilliant idea - I knew it would need rewriting. In its original form, it was too British, too parochial and took a typical police procedural approach'.

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