It cost $100 million and is based on a true story

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It cost 100 million and is based on a true

Many disaster movies are based on true events, but very few have to depict a disaster that happened nearly 2,000 years ago. Pompeii is trying to do just that. Resident Evil director Paul WS Anderson created a visually stunning and ambitious work in 2014 that is unfortunately still ridiculed today. On a budget of $100 million, it only grossed $118 million. Today Pompeii is on TV and you can give it a second chance.

Volcano Eruption Love Story: What is Pompeii About?

Of course, Pompeii is all about the famous, fatal volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 (more on that below). But every good disaster movie has a cheesy background story that gives us a better understanding of the characters who fight for their lives for the rest of the runtime.

This is the subplot of Pompeii: The slave Milo (Kit Harington) struggles through as a gladiator. Sometimes he gets cheered on by the crowd, sometimes he gets booed. When he meets the wealthy Cassia (Emily Browning), Milo begins a life without daily bloodshed to introduce. She is a person who sees him with completely different eyes. The problem: The power-hungry Senator Corvus (Kiefer Sutherland) is also after Cassia. (In home theater: The best action movie of 2022 with a perfect story and incredible stunts *)

Pompeii sticks surprisingly closely to the real background

Director Paul WS Anderson presided two difficult challenge in the production of Pompeii:

  • On the one hand, he had to depict the eruption of a volcano as realistically as possible. To ensure this, Anderson and his team analyzed a number of videos from various real-world volcanic eruptions.
  • The Vesuvius eruption, which is the subject of the film, had to hit the image of a city that has not existed for almost 2000 years: the destroyed city of Pompeii in southern Italy. The basic structures and outlines of the city are still preserved. The film crew used helicopter shots to get a true-to-detail image.

    • Here you can read the details about the historical background of Pompeii in more detail. Only individual details in the plot, such as the social position of women, were misrepresented.

    When and where is Pompeii on TV?

  • Pompeii runs on Saturday at 11:50 p.m. on Sat.1
  • It will be repeated the following night at 3 a.m
  • The TV broadcast is worthwhile as the film is not currently available as a streaming subscription

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