Back in 2010, it was
reported that Channing Tatum signed on to star in Love and Honor, a film based on the life of Catherine the Great (written and directed by Randall Wallace. Tatum would play American soldier Kieran Selkirk, recruited by Benjamin Franklin to convince the Russian Empress not to join the British in war against America. Selkirk must survive savage terrain, starving wolves, secret assassins, marauding Cossacks, a court of seductive young women, and even a dramatic romantic face-off with the legendary Tsarina herself. Anne Hathaway was supposed to play Tatum's character's love interest in this movie. But Today, a photographer named
Beau Jones shared one photo Channing did back then for Love and Honor. Not a bad look. This also shows how difficult it is to make a movie.
It seems this story happened around the time as Turn: Washington's Spies. Another idean for an AU for The Eagle?