February 28th, 2014 is the official release date that filmgoers will get to see Game Of Thrones actor Kit Harrington in the upcoming period disaster flick, Pompeii. Harrington was the main feature in the first official still from the film this week courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, which you can see above.
The film deals with a slave’s fight for his freedom and a life with the woman he loves, all told in the days leading up to the city’s destruction at the foot of a deadly volcanic eruption that leaves the ancient city in ashes. Actors Jared Harris, Kiefer Sutherland, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jessica Lucas and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje also star in the film, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.
SYNOPSIS:
Set in late summer 79AD, “Pompeii” revolves around the slave (Harington) of a shipping tycoon who dreams of the day he can buy his freedom and marry his master’s daughter (Emily Browning). What the slave doesn’t know is that she’s already been promised to a corrupt Roman senator, while he’s been sold to another owner.
Just when things can’t get any worse, Mt. Vesuvius erupts with the power of 40 nuclear bombs. But the slave is trapped on a ship headed for Naples, separated from his love and best friend, a gladiator who is trapped in the city’s coliseum. As fire and ash destroy the only world he’s ever known, the slave is determined to get back and rescue them.
