TORONTO – The catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed a Roman city in 79 A.D. will be recreated for the big screen in – where else – Toronto.
Director Paul W.S. Anderson will shoot the epic Pompeii in the city from April 22 to July 5.
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The only confirmed cast member so far is Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow on the HBO series Game of Thrones.
The 26-year-old British actor will play a slave on a Naples-bound ship trying to get home to save his girlfriend (his master’s daughter) and his best friend (a gladiator).
It’s a return visit for Harington – who was in the city to make last year’s release Silent Hill: Revelation 3D – and Anderson, who made three of the Resident Evil films in Toronto.
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