Paul W.S. Anderson is set to direct Pompeii, a big budget disaster flick for Summit Entertainment. The film, obviously based on the tragic city's destruction by Mt. Vesuvius, will mainly center on a strong love story (ala Titanic), reports THR. Their plot synopsis reads, "Set in late summer 79 A.D., Pompeii revolves around the slave of a shipping tycoon who dreams of the day he can buy his freedom and marry his master's daughter. What the slave doesn't know is that she's already been promised to a corrupt Roman senator, while he's been sold to another owner. Just when things can't get any worse, Mt. Vesuvius erupts with the power of 40 nuclear bombs. But the slave is trapped on a ship headed for Naples, separated from his love and best friend, a gladiator who is trapped in the city's coliseum. As fire and ash destroy the only world he's ever known, the slave is determined to get back and rescue them." The film is set to shoot in Spring 2012 and will be shopped to foreign distributors at the Cannes Film Festival.
So no Resident Evil 5, then?
