Paul W.S. Anderson headed for POMPEII.

[Roose Bolton]

What the hell is Jared Harris doing in this?

 

[Piper Maru]

He'll be punching boulders, no wait, he'll punch the volcano and that will cause the eruption.

 

[Gianakin_]

What the hell is Jared Harris doing in this?

Needs to build a pool and drown ****es in it. Ben Affleck will help.

 

[terry78]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=101797

Keifer Sutherland cast as the villain. Boom.

 

[Octoberist]

Maybe these actors are confusing WS Anderson with Wes Anderson or Paul Thomas Anderson. I don't expect much from the film because WS has not evolved in the past two decades.

 

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"LOST" star Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje has joined the cast of Paul W.S. Anderson's period disaster movie Pompeii, says a story at Variety. He joins Emily Browning, Kit Harington, Jared Harris and Kiefer Sutherland in the Summit Entertainment project.

Based on the world's most famous volcanic eruption, Pompeii centers on Milo (Harington), the slave of a shipping tycoon who dreams of the day he can buy his freedom and marry his master's daughter, Flavia (Browning). What Milo doesn't know is that she's already been promised to a corrupt Roman senator, while he's been sold to another owner in Naples. Just when things can't get any worse, Mt. Vesuvius erupts, prompting Milo to head back to Pompeii to rescue his love and his best friend, a gladiator (Akinnuoye-Agbaje) who's trapped in the city's coliseum.

Anderson and Jeremy Bolt are producing Pompeii through their Impact Pictures along with Robert Kulzer and Martin Moszkowicz of Constantin Film. Lee Batchler and Janet Scott Batchler wrote the script, which was revised by Julian Fellowes. Financed and produced by Constantin Film, the movie will be distributed by Lionsgate/Summit in North America.

 

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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.
Script was written by Lee and Janet Scott Batchler, Michael Robert Johnson and Julian Fellowes. Pic’s a co-production between Constantin Film and Impact Pictures, and produced by Anderson and his Impact Pictures producing partner Jeremy Bolt. Robert Kulzer is producing for Constantin alongside Don Carmody. Martin Moszkowicz is executive producer.
Moss has been able to work in the film with her schedule on the CBS series Vegas. She’s repped by WME and Hodgson Management.

 

[Godsfireworks]

I only hope they get the science right with the eruption. That's all I really care about, I'm going to see a volcano explode on screen, not a sappy story. or Maybe I should just get Dante's Peak on Blu Ray already.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

How can two people with such a huge chasm in talent have such similar names?

 

[Bowie]

He's a true auteur, that Paul WS.

 

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FilmDistrict Takes Paul W.S. Anderson's Pompeii
Source: FilmDistrict
April 9, 2013







FilmDistrict announced today that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Constantin Film and Impact Pictures� Pompeii, the period-based action film from director Paul W.S. Anderson.

FilmDistrict will distribute Pompeii through Sony's TriStar Pictures on February 28, 2014.

The film stars Kit Harington ("Game of Thrones"), Emily Browning (Sucker Punch), Jared Harris (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), Kiefer Sutherland ("24"), Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ("LOST"), and Jessica Lucas (Evil Dead).

FilmDistrict�s CEO Peter Schlessel stated, �'Pompeii' is the kind of big and bold film we all love to go to the movies to experience. We believe the film�s scope and story line will resonate well with US moviegoers and we are pleased to once again team with Sony on bringing a film to theaters and beyond. We look forward to working closely with Paul, Jeremy, Robert, Don, Martin and Jon as their US distribution partner.�

The film follows 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 will produce the film, with Martin Moszkowicz, Peter Schlessel and Jon Brown serving as executive producers. Lee Batchler & Janet Scott Batchler (Batman Forever), Michael Robert Johnson (Sherlock Holmes), and Academy Award winner Julian Fellowes ("Downton Abbey") wrote the screenplay for the film, which is currently in production.

 

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Kit Harington Takes Center Stage in the First Pompeii Still
Source: EW
August 20, 2013



The very first still from director Paul W.S. Anderson's (Resident Evil) upcoming Pompeii is now online and it shows off leading man Kit Harington ("Game of Thrones") in period raiments. Check it out below, courtesy of EW!

The film follows 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.

Emily Browning, Jared Harris, Kiefer Sutherland, Carrie-Anne Moss, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Jessica Lucas also star in the February 28, 2014 release.

 

[slumcat]

Looking sharp there.

Here's the full article.

Game of Thrones star Kit Harington has talked publicly about the physical transformation he undertook to play Milo, a slave turned gladiator, but little did we know he’d be so … exposed. We’re worlds away from The Wall.
As captivating as Harington’s physique might be, it’s hard to discern what exactly is going on in this exclusive first look at Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson’s Mount Vesuvius pic Pompeii. Are those ashes? Where is he going? Is he coolly walking away from an erupting volcano? Did he forget his shirt? Thankfully, Harington took a few minutes to shed some light on why Milo is looking so surly and bare in this photo.

“This is the first scene you see me in. It’s set in London, in fact, and it’s a scene where my character is a gladiator fighting in an arena. That’s his gladiator look,” Harington said. “It’s a great little fight against three masked gladiators and sets up who he is and where he’s going. You see me display my skills quite early on.” Perhaps unfortunately for us, this isn’t his uniform. “It’s a costume I don’t actually wear for the rest of the film, but it’s an establishing one.”
What brought him to be fighting in an arena in London is part of the broader story of this 3-D epic, which climaxes with the 79 A.D. eruption of Mount Vesuvius. “Milo is a Celt who is enslaved when he is a child and his family is killed. There’s a time cut that happens in the movie where you see me go from a child to a man, and you realize he’s been a gladiator for a long time. Eventually he’s taken to Pompeii,” Harington said. Once in the bustling city, he falls for a higher-class beauty named Cassia, played by Sucker Punch‘s Emily Browning. “It follows their story till the volcano erupts,” Harington teased. “There are some beautiful scenes in there.” The ensemble cast includes Jared Harris, who plays Cassia’s father Lucretius, Keifer Sutherland as a visiting Roman Senator, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Paz Vega.
Game of Thrones die-hards will be pleased to know that Milo isn’t all that dissimilar to the bastard son of the North. “He’s a good swordsman and good fighter, and quite brooding, which is all of what Jon Snow is, and he doesn’t really speak a hell of a lot, even though I’ve got a lot of screen time. He kind of keeps himself to himself.”
“The differences, and why I was interested in the role, were that Milo is completely set on vengeance rather than honor and justice,” Harington said. “He’s an angry, angry man who doesn’t care what he does. For a large part of the film, he’s driven by pure rage.” Harington said he met Anderson in Los Angeles this past January to discuss the character and the film. “He’s a very aesthetic director, Paul. He’s very visual. And he showed me pictures of different volcanoes in eruption and pictures from Pompeii. I kind of liked the way he was selling the movie to me as a very beautiful visual story as well as having character arcs.”
But as to why he went full Hugh Jackman to play Milo? That was Harington’s decision. “The first thing I said to [Paul] was, ‘Look, I’m playing a gladiator. I feel there should be a physical transformation, if he’s as strong as you say in the script. Maybe I should sort of tone up for that?’” he said. “So I went into quite a heavy training regime five weeks before filming. I started by bulking up and then when I got out there I had four weeks to shred down and get toned. It’s a full-time job that you have to carry on for the whole of the movie. I was on a very severe diet and training six days a week.” Harington worked with a trainer throughout the film to maintain his gladiator form. “It’s the best shape I’ve been in, and I was hell-bent on getting in a certain way. When you get into that sort of training regime, it becomes addictive.”
Harington admits that in drama school he was always the baby-faced one playing 11-year-olds, and that it’s odd being known now for such action-oriented films. “You go where it takes you. I’m always aware of being stereotyped in a role or typecast. But I enjoy the action stuff. I like doing my own stunts,” he said. “I do a lot of fighting in this film.
“But the next thing I do might not be a period action role. That might be taking it one step too far.”

 

[Mr.M]

YES! YES! YES! A new Paul Thomas Anderson film!

...wait, what? I misread the title? Paul W.S. Anderson? OH GOD DAMN IT!

I remember watching that Death Race movie with Jason Statham, seeing Paul (Blank) Anderson as director and thinking, "**** this is actually gonna be well written."

Then Joan Allen's characters had a line like, "We'll see who ****s on the sidewalk first..." and I was like, "somethings not right here "

 

[terry78]

W.S. is the difference. When you see that, you know you're in for.....something not good.

 

[Project862006]

mortal kombat is awesome tho

 

[terry78]

And Event Horizon...but a stopped clock is right at least once a day.

 

[dark_b]

perfect clean and shiny leather. nice very nice

 

[Persona]

Hollywood, stop enabling this guy! or force him to make only Mortal Kombat movies.

still can't get the sheer awfulness of AvP out of my mind.

 

[Rocketman]

Mortal Kombat was awesome.

Event Horizon was awesome.

Solider is very underrated.

The first Resident Evil (for all intents and purposes, pretend it's a separate entity from the games) is a damn awesome film. The sequels not so much. But that first movie is definitely solid.

So, eh, I don't know. I don't mind him.

People are too harsh on directors. For these types of movies he does, producers have 90% of the control, all the way back to the script stages. They essentially "write" a movie in a boardroom, and then hire a writer to crank out the screenplay. The director is then a puppet who gets to "call the shots", but he's really the last stage in a trickle-down operation that's already laid out for him.

Your Nolans and Tarantinos and Scorseses... these are the rarest of rare exceptions.

Everything from Transformers, the RoboCop remake, to X-Men 3: The Last Stand, to X-Men Origins: Wolverine... you have to remember: not one person wrote those movies. A dozen suits did with no writing credentials, long before pen went to paper.

This mentality that Brett Ratner, M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Raimi, Martin Campbell single-handedly destroyed some of their movies is downright preposterous.

 

[chelo248]

Pompeii - Teaser Trailer

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[Schlosser85]

You know nothing, Jon Snow.

 

[Farren]

Cripes I hate the Paul Thomas Anderson and Paul WS Anderson confusion I always have. I was really excitied when I thought it was from the director of There Will Be Blood and Boogie Nights

Someone I always manage to mix Wes Anderson in there too. I think because of the "Wes" vs "WS" bit.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Is there any viable reason for anybody to care about this movie?

 

[CapedCrusader14]

It'll probably just exist to annoy me with dozens and dozens of historical inaccuracies.