Trivia / Pompeii

• Actor Allusion:
  • Kit Harington plays a Celtic slave originally from Britain. You can say that he is at home in the North.
  • Carrie-Anne Moss plays Cassia's mother, Aurelia. Pretty funny when you realize that she played Harington's mother, Claudia Wolf, in another film.
  • This is Jessica Lucas's second stint in a disaster film. She survived the last one, unlike this time.
  • Anyone willing to bet that Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje really hates prisons?
    • Or menacing clouds of smoke?
• Billing Displacement: Carrie-Anne Moss is billed second, above female lead Emily Browning (billed third) and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje who plays The Lancer (billed fourth).
• Box Office Bomb: Budget: $100 million. Box office, $23,219,748 (domestic), $117,831,631 (worldwide).
• Creator Backlash: While hosting Saturday Night Live, Kit Harington remarks in his monologue how the film somehow ended up being a bigger disaster than the one it was based on.
• Creator Killer: The company who made this movie, Film District, was absorbed by Focus Features when this film failed. It remains to be seen if Paul W.S. Anderson will also fall victim to this.