Newsweek‘s Barbie Nadeau writes today about the Pompeii ruins in Italy, and the possible restriction of visitors to the site. What has this to do with Pixar? Well Campania’s (region in Italy of which the Pompeii ruins are a part of) regional heritage councilor, Claudio Velardi wants to limit visitors to the site, but offer it up the venue for rent to large foreign companies. One of these companies is Disney•Pixar/Warner Bros.
Undeterred, he also plans to talk to Pixar and Warner Bros. about leasing the ruins as movie sets after Roman Polanski’s film "Pompeii," which is stalled in production, was shot in Spain.
Pixar filming in Pompeii? The only Disney•Pixar and Warner Bros. collaboration that we know of is Brad Bird’s live action debut, 1906. Now there are 3 possible reasons offered as to why Pixar might want to film in Pompeii.
It has to be 1906. I don’t see why WB would be working on John Carter of Mars as well when it will be helmed by Andrew Stanton. Disney can/should produce it all by itself.
Absolute Flashback fodder if ever i heard it.
1906 will either have a character visiting pompeii (possibly sparking an idea) or will include a line similar to “ Imagine the horror… it would be like a modern day Pompeii”… wibblywobbly- transition into flashback….
I hope Mr Bird isn’t as cheesy as me:)
Not sure if this will play in the film or not, but in the book, the opera singer Enrico Caruso comes from Italy and there is discussion regarding the destruction of Vesuvius, perhaps that’s what this is for.