Roman Polanski's aborted mega-budget "Pompeii" feature will now be re-imagined as a lavish miniseries for Sony Pictures TV, Scott Free and Tandem says The Hollywood Reporter.
Based on the novel by Robert Harris, much like Polanski's recent film "The Ghost Writer", the story follows aqueduct engineer Marcus Attilius, who finds himself in a race against time to keep the military and trade ports on the Naples Bay alive, unaware of the brewing eruption about to set Mount Vesuvius in flame.
Polanski himself won't be involved in this mini-series version. Tandem and Scott Free previously teamed on the mini-series adaptation of Ken Follett's "The Pillars of the Earth" scheduled to air later this year. Ian McShane, Donald Sutherland, Rufus Sewell and Matthew Macfadyen all star in that 12th century-set story of a cathedral's construction against the backdrop of 'The Anarchy' after the death of Henry the First.
Based on the novel by Robert Harris, much like Polanski's recent film "The Ghost Writer", the story follows aqueduct engineer Marcus Attilius, who finds himself in a race against time to keep the military and trade ports on the Naples Bay alive, unaware of the brewing eruption about to set Mount Vesuvius in flame.
Polanski himself won't be involved in this mini-series version. Tandem and Scott Free previously teamed on the mini-series adaptation of Ken Follett's "The Pillars of the Earth" scheduled to air later this year. Ian McShane, Donald Sutherland, Rufus Sewell and Matthew Macfadyen all star in that 12th century-set story of a cathedral's construction against the backdrop of 'The Anarchy' after the death of Henry the First.
