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Coming soon a film on Pompeii
Roman Polanski
has decided to make a movie on Pompeii and he is already starting
the resumptions. At
Giffoni Film Festival,
edition 2007, speak about the project: “That about Pompeii is an
independent production, it doesn't involve a big studios, it is an
all European production”. At the moment (August 2007) they are no
final names for the cast, even though two special names are talked
about:
Orlando Bloom
and
Scarlett Johansson.
“We are still working on the screen-play and when we will end it, we
will start to work on the cast. And then, it depends on the
availability of the actors, they have to read the screen-play and to
see if they like the project”.
The new film of
Polanski
is based on the book “Pompei”
of
Robert Harris,
a book that the director defines “marvellous”. “We are trying to be
faithful to the real text as more as possible, but while Harris has
centred above all the history on
Plinio,
we are aiming more at the figure of
Marco Attilio.
It’s a thriller, with a love story at the background. This is the
line we are trying to follow. Pompeii will be totally rebuilt as it
was before the eruption. We will use a lot the computerized graphic
but it won’t be a videogames result”.
This is the plot of the book of Robert Harris:
Pompei. 79 d.C. Venti ore alla catastrofe.
Pompeii, 79 AD. Only
two days
to go before the huge eruption of the
Vesuvius.
It’s a hot week of the end of August. Along the coast the rich ones
enjoy themselves in their luxury villas. Around them, invisible, the
slaves, work and suffer the injustice of their condition. The naval
fleet is pacifically present in the harbour of
Miseno.
In this climate of apparent calm, only one man is worried: the
engineer
Marco Attilio,
responsible of the
Aqua Augusta,
the enormous aqueduct which supplies nine cities of the gulf.
Attilio,
arrived from
Rome
immediately after his predecessor has mysteriously disappeared,
notice that the sources, after a long time, are getting exhausted
and that are mixing with the sulphur.
Pompei. 79 d.C. Venti ore alla catastrofe
Harris Robert; Mondadori
€ 8,40
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