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Roman soldiers under Corvus attack a tribe of Celtic horsemen in northern Britannia, killing the parents of a boy named Milo, the only one left alive and later sold by slave traders. Seventeen years on, in Londinium, Milo has become a popular gladiator, and his owner Graecus brings the fighters to Pompeii for the games. Cassia, just back from a year in Rome, is the daughter of Severus, the city governor, and Aurelia. She watches Milo put a badly injured horse out of its misery and is drawn to him. In Pompeii, Milo gains a rival in Atticus, a champion who earns his freedom with one more win, while the senator Corvus, whose advances Cassia left Rome to avoid, takes an interest in Severus' plans for the city.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pompeii (2014)
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- Lead actor Kit Harington's training regimen to bulk up for the role became so obsessive, with gym sessions three times a day, six days a week, that his own trainer had to step in and warn him he was pushing into body dysmorphia.
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory volcanologist Rosaly Lopes praised the film's science, saying it realistically captured the earthquakes that preceded the eruption along with the explosions and pyroclastic flows that buried Pompeii and its residents.
- Pompeii marked the fourth time director Paul W. S. Anderson shot a film in 3D, a technique he first used on Resident Evil: Afterlife in 2010; that film's producers, Jeremy Bolt and Don Carmody, reunited with him for Pompeii.
- The film relies for its reconstruction of historical events on two letters written by Pliny the Younger to the Roman historian Tacitus.
SPOILER
Anderson found inspiration for the characters in real people, representing the famous plaster cast of the "twin lovers" of Pompeii as Milo and Cassia, and finding inspiration for Atticus in the casts of the cowering man.
