James Cameron Taking On Pompeii Disaster Movie

[Tuesday, February 17th, 2004]
James Cameron is returning to the directors chair for 20th Century Fox' Ghosts of Vesuvius. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the movie will be based on HarperCollins book by Charles Pellegrino about the volcanic eruption that leveled Pompeii in 79 A.D.

Cameron will wait before deciding whether he will direct the fictional look at Pompeii and its destruction that will be culled from Pelligrino's nonfiction book. The volcano was estimated to have unleashed a lethal blast several times more powerful than the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima.

The project is expected to shoot later this year or early next year, and will be his first dramatic feature since 'Titanic'.

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