BEVERLY HILLS, CA - SEPTEMBER 17: Kit Harrington arrives for the 9th annual BAFTA tea party at L’Ermitage Beverly Hills Hotel on September 17, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Toby Canham/Getty Images For BAFTA Los Angeles)
Photo: Toby Canham/2011 Getty Images
Kit Harington, known to you and yours as Jon Snow on Game of Thrones, is negotiating to star in Pompeii. The film, from Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Alien vs. Predator, and, hello, Mortal Kombat!), will tack a love story onto the 79 A.D.-set adventure, Titanic-style. Harington would play “a slave stuck on a ship who must race against time to save his true love, his master’s daughter, as well as his best friend, a gladiator trapped in the coliseum when the destruction begins.†Zombies are unlikely but possible.