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14 November 2012 2:00 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Five years ago, director Roman Polanski was set to helm a movie called Pompeii about the devastating and infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy in 79 Ad. Things went south, Ridley Scott became attached at one point, then decided it would be better as a TV mini-series, and now Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson is developing an entirely separate project about the same event. This version will be a period adventure movie anchored by a strong love story, and Variety reports that Anderson has found a lead in Kit Harington, who plays the brooding Jon Snow on HBO's much-loved fantasy series "Game of Thrones." The story, written by Lee Batchler and Janet Scott Batchler and revised by "Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes, centers on a slave named Milo (Harington) who is in love with his master's daughter. But she's already been promised to a corrupt Roman senator, and he's »

- Ben Pearson

4 April 2012 7:02 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »

I come to praise Sword & Sandal movies -- not to bury them. But with Wrath of the Titans and the Sword & Sandal/sci-fi mash-up John Carter not exactly setting the world on fire -- along with recent disappointments like Immortals and Conan -- it's getting more difficult by the day to believe that the Sword & Sandal movie can survive the recent fumbling of this otherwise great genre. And that's a shame, because the Sword & Sandal movie -- known for its gladiatorial games, pagan orgies, depraved emperors, and the occasional snarling cyclops -- may represent the most colorful and enduring movie genre of all time. So for the uninitiated, what exactly is a Sword & Sandal movie? Like its cousin the Biblical epic, a Sword & Sandal movie -- or 'peplum,' named after a type of ancient Greek garment -- is typically set in the ancient Mediterranean world, and dramatizes the fight for freedom. »

- Jason Apuzzo

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