A movie project about Pompeii that Roman Polanski was set to direct two years ago is being re-imagined as a miniseries by a partnership that includes Sony Pictures TV, Scott Free and German producer Tandem.
As with the aborted Polanski pic, the event mini is based on the bestseller "Pompeii" by Robert Harris and will be unveiled Monday in Cannes during the Miptv program sales market. (Polanski went on to collaborate with Harris on another pic, "The Ghost Writer," but has no involvement in this epic for the smallscreen.)
Details are still sketchy as to which party will retain which distribution rights on "Pompeii," but Tandem, the company behind another mini based on Ken Follett's "Pillars of the Earth," will likely handle key European territories while Sony retains rights elsewhere.
While the appetite for big-budget miniseries has waxed and waned in the U.S. over the decades, appeal internationally...
As with the aborted Polanski pic, the event mini is based on the bestseller "Pompeii" by Robert Harris and will be unveiled Monday in Cannes during the Miptv program sales market. (Polanski went on to collaborate with Harris on another pic, "The Ghost Writer," but has no involvement in this epic for the smallscreen.)
Details are still sketchy as to which party will retain which distribution rights on "Pompeii," but Tandem, the company behind another mini based on Ken Follett's "Pillars of the Earth," will likely handle key European territories while Sony retains rights elsewhere.
While the appetite for big-budget miniseries has waxed and waned in the U.S. over the decades, appeal internationally...
- 4/11/2010
- by By Elizabeth Guider
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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