Emily Browning And Jared Harris Join Kit Harington In POMPEII

THR reports that Emily Browning (Sucker Punch) and Jared Harris (Benjamin Button, Mad Men, Lincoln. Sherlock Holmes 2) have joined the cast of Paul W.S. Anderson's (Three Musketeers) Pompeii which has Game of Thrones star Kit Harington (Seventh Son, Silent Hill 2) in the lead. You might remember Jared had a supporting role in Resident Evil 2 which could be how Anderson wrangled him into this project. Let's just hope the film ends up a little more coherent than his Resident Evil movies since it does seem to have an interesting setting and potential to be an entertaining flick.

Pompeii is set in 79 A.D. and follows Milo (Kit Harington), a slave-turned-invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Flavia (Emily Browning), a wealthy merchant's daughter who unwillingly has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman general. Jared Harris will play Flavia's father Lucretius.

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Screen Gems Buys Rights To Devil May Cry

Sony Screen Gems has a few successful franchises in their pockets one being Underworld. An original concept that has spawned four films. The fourth currently in development and about to go into production. Their other big money maker is Resident Evil based on the popular Capcom video game series. That one is about to go into it's fifth installment. Now Collider reports that Screen Gems has bought the rights to another Capcom game Devil May Cry in the hopes to make a movie.

The games center around Dante, a man who slaughters demons to avenge his mother’s death. Kyle Ward has been hired to write the script and has previously wrote for the adaptation of Kane & Lynch. There seems to be a market out there for R-rated horror based action films and I'm all for that. Let's just hope that Paul W.S. Anderson isn't brought in to produce or direct as he's best suited for Resident Evil.