Comments on: Legendary Writer Robert Towne To Pen Mini-Series ‘Pompeii’ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/legendary-writer-robert-towne-to-pen-mini-series-pompeii-20110404/ Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:59:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: lily https://staging2.theplaylist.net/legendary-writer-robert-towne-to-pen-mini-series-pompeii-20110404/#comment-100875 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:48:48 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/legendary-writer-robert-towne-to-pen-mini-series-pompeii-119399/#comment-100875 Hehehe, Chinatown in Rome.

]]> By: nimeataur https://staging2.theplaylist.net/legendary-writer-robert-towne-to-pen-mini-series-pompeii-20110404/#comment-100876 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:48:48 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/legendary-writer-robert-towne-to-pen-mini-series-pompeii-119399/#comment-100876 glad to hear pompeii has been taken up, its a far better book than ghost writer- lets hope ridley scott manages to re cast orlando bloom who would have been perfect in the role and lets hope ridley has finally gotten o ver his obesseion with russel crowe who is way past playing a role like this as robin hood just goes to prove

]]> By: James https://staging2.theplaylist.net/legendary-writer-robert-towne-to-pen-mini-series-pompeii-20110404/#comment-100877 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:48:48 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/legendary-writer-robert-towne-to-pen-mini-series-pompeii-119399/#comment-100877 Makes perfect sense, since POMPEII is an homage to CHINATOWN — corruption dealing with the water supply, heroic lead uncovering a mystery while falling in love with the decent daughter of the savage villain.

Would have been cool to see Polanski direct Harris\’s own feature script, which did a great job of condensing his novel, but am excited to see how Towne will handle it. I hope they get a feature-level director as well.

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