Source: FilmShaft - Paul W.S. Anderson To Direct Pompeii Disaster Flick
Volcanoes are cinematic. Ancient Roman history is very cinematic. Combine the two, add in Paul W.S. Anderson and what do you get? A historical disaster movie! The British director has signed on the dotted line to bring a CG explodaganza to our screens... probably in 3D.
Pompeii was a project Roland Emmerich was circling but now he's abandoned it to the fate of Anderson. The narrative, according to Total Film, centres on "slave of a tycoon who dreams of buying his freedom and marrying his master’s daughter."
Roman Polanski was set to make a film about Pompeii based on Robert Harris' book but budget issues and him being arrested put an end to that. One imagines Anderson's vision to be centred on spectacle. As long as he's not allowed anywhere near the script things might be alright.
Volcanoes are cinematic. Ancient Roman history is very cinematic. Combine the two, add in Paul W.S. Anderson and what do you get? A historical disaster movie! The British director has signed on the dotted line to bring a CG explodaganza to our screens... probably in 3D.
Pompeii was a project Roland Emmerich was circling but now he's abandoned it to the fate of Anderson. The narrative, according to Total Film, centres on "slave of a tycoon who dreams of buying his freedom and marrying his master’s daughter."
Roman Polanski was set to make a film about Pompeii based on Robert Harris' book but budget issues and him being arrested put an end to that. One imagines Anderson's vision to be centred on spectacle. As long as he's not allowed anywhere near the script things might be alright.
- 5/3/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
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