Amazon MGM Studios is laboring on a restricted series changeation of the book A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii. The series trails the direct up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, according to a tell from Variety.
What do we understand about the A Day of Fire restricted series?
The series will be written by Michael Hirst and Horatio Hirst, who will also serve as executive producers and showrunners for the project. The book the series is based on was written by Kate Quinn, Stephanie Dray, Ben Kane, Eliza Knight, Sophie Perinot, and Vicky Alvear.
While it’s confparticipate equitable how the series will go, the book trails a series of overlapping stories about the people living in Pompeii in the direct up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The stories all caccess on day-to-day life in Pompeii before its tragic destruction.
“Pompeii was a energetic resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of the Roman Empire,” reads the official synopsis for the book. “When Vesuvius erupted in an explosion of ffeeble and ash, the entire town would be demolished. Some of its citizens died in the lawlessness, some escaped the mountain’s wrath . . . and these are their stories.”
Hirst is best understandn for creating the historical television shows Vikings, The Tudors, and Billy the Kid, all of which have been criticassociate acclaimed, and the latter of which was rerecented for a third and final season at MGM+. He also served as the authorr for Elizabeth and was co-authorr for Elizabeth: The Gagederen Age, both of which starred Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I of England.
(Source: Variety)
