The set of Pompeii is exactly the way you might imagine a Hollywood film set to be. A huge fake amphitheater, a long lunch line of muscly men wearing gladiator armor, hundreds of extras killing time in Roman costume, their iPhones at odds with their outfits. The whole thing feels like it could easily turn into a Monty Python skit at any moment. There is no doubt this is a big movie, tackling a big, catastrophic event.
And the man behind all the madness is Paul W S Anderson, best known as the director of the Resident Evil film series and the husband of the gorgeous Milla Jovovich. For Paul, this is most definitely a passion project, albeit an ambitious one. “I’ve been obsessed with Romans since I was a child,” admits Paul, patting his ever-present dog, Spinee, “When I was a kid, every field trip was to some Roman fort because it was cheap and free. I was always fascinated by them. And Pompeii is just a fascinating subject. The idea of this city that’s really been preserved in time. It’s really one of the most unique archeological sites in the world. These people were flash-fried at the point of death. So you see lovers embraced, you see the person carrying, you see the dog, it’s kind of all these figures frozen in time. Pompeii is very evocative subject matter. That’s something I’ve been obsessed with for a long time. I’ve been trying to make this movie since 2008 so it’s definitely kind of a five or six-year labor of love. That’s when we started developing the screenplay.”
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