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FilmDistrict Acquires U.S. Rights To Paul W.S. Anderson’s ‘Pompeii’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday April 9, 2013 @ 4:31pm PDTTags: FilmDistrict, Paul W.S. Anderson, Pompeii

FilmDistrict has acquired U.S. rights to Pompeii, the Paul W.S. Anderson-directed action adventure film, set for a February 28, 2014 release. Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Jared Harris, Kiefer Sutherland, Carrie-Ann Moss, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Jessica Lucas star. The film centers on an enslaved Celtic gladiator who falls in love with a noblewoman on the eve of a massive volcanic eruption that destroys Pompeii, an event that also brings him face-to-face with the man who slaughtered his family years earlier. Jeremy Bolt, Anderson, Robert Kulzer and Don Carmody are producing with Martin Moszkowicz, Peter Schlessel and Jon Brown serving as executive producers. Lee and Janet Scott Batchler, Michael Robert Johnson and Julian Fellowes penned the screenplay. FilmDistrict will distribute through Sony’s TriStar Pictures. Lionsgate will handle international sales.

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Carrie-Anne Moss Joins ‘Pompei’ Toga Party

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 9, 2013 @ 8:16am PDTTags: Carrie-Anne Moss, Paul W.S. Anderson, Pompeii
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EXCLUSIVE: Carrie-Anne Moss has joined the cast of Pompeii, the Paul W.S. Anderson-directed 3D action adventure film. Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Kiefer Sutherland, Jessica Lucas and Jared Harris also star in the film, which began shooting last month in Pompeii and is now in Toronto. Set in 79 A.D., Milo, a slave-turned-invincible gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Flavia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman General. As Mt. Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once-magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him. Moss is playing Flavia’s mother. Read More »

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‘Evil Dead’s Jessica Lucas Joins Paul W.S. Anderson’s ‘Pompeii’

By JEN YAMATO | Monday April 8, 2013 @ 2:36pm PDTTags: Evil Dead, Jessica Lucas, Pompeii

Jessica Lucas PompeiiEXCLUSIVE: Hot off of Sony’s TriStar and FilmDistrict’s #1 weekend opener Evil Dead, Jessica Lucas has lined up a role in Paul W.S. Anderson’s 3D period adventure. She’ll play the slave/confidante … Read More »

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Paul W.S. Anderson’s 3D ‘Pompeii’ Adds Jared Harris

By JEN YAMATO | Wednesday March 13, 2013 @ 4:33pm PDTTags: Jared Harris, Paul W.S. Anderson, Pompeii

Sherlock Holmes star Jared Harris has joined Emily Browning (Sucker Punch) and Kit Harington (Game Of Thrones) in Paul W.S. Anderson‘s period 3D action-adventure. Harris will play Lucretius, a wealthy merchant whose daughter Flavia (Browning) is imperiled as Mount Vesuvius erupts and slave-turned-gladiator Milo (Harington) races to save her. The project, produced by Constantin Film and Impact Pictures, has been kicking around for a while now. Anderson was set to start shooting last spring when Summit was shopping the title to foreign buyers at Cannes, but filming was pushed to this year and is underway now in Pompeii, Italy, moving to Toronto at the end of March. The Resident Evil/Three Musketeers helmer is directing from a script by Janet Scott Batchler & Lee Batchler, Michael Robert Johnson, and Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey). Roman Polanski years ago tried his hand at a competing Pompeii project adapted from Robert Harris’ novel before he bailed.
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