Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

FilmDistrict have just announced that they’ve acquired US distribution rights to Constantin Film and Impact Pictures’ ‘Pompeii,’ the period-based action film from director Paul W.S. Anderson. FilmDistrict will distribute ‘Pompeii’ through Sony’s TriStar Pictures on February 28th, 2014. The film stars Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Jared Harris, Kiefer Sutherland, Carrie-Anne Moss, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Jessica Lucas. ‘Pompeii’ follows an enslaved Celtic gladiator who falls in love...Read Full Story

Variety bring word that Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje has joined the cast Paul W.S. Anderson’s 3D action-adventure film, ’Pompeii.’ The actor will co-star opposite Game of Thrones’ Kit Harington, Jared Harris, Kiefer Sutherland, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pingue and Emily Browning. ‘Pompeii’ is set in 79 A.D., in the days before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, one of history’s great disasters. The story follows Milo (Harington), a slave-turned-invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against...Read Full Story

As a gladiator for Paul WS AndersonPaul WS Anderson has found one of the last lead cast members to slot into place for his latest stab at historical action-adventure in Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. The actor, known for Lost and G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra has signed to play a gladiator in Pompeii.The film stars Game Of Thrones’ Kit Harington as Milo, a slave living in the doomed city in AD 79. When he’s shipped off shortly before Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of deadly lava, Milo must fight...Read Full Story

As a gladiator for Paul WS AndersonPaul WS Anderson has found one of the last lead cast members to slot into place for his latest stab at historical action-adventure in Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. The actor, known for Lost and G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra has signed to play a gladiator in Pompeii.The film stars Game Of Thrones’ Kit Harington as Milo, a slave living in the doomed city in AD 79. When he’s shipped off shortly before Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of deadly lava, Milo must fight...Read Full Story

Meet Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. You may know him as Mr. Eko from Lost or Heavy Duty from GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra. If those characters aren’t familiar to you, then you’ll definitely see more of him this year. We recently had a chance to talk to Adewale on his role as Algrim/Kurse in Thor: The Dark World and working with Sylvester Stallone in Bullet to the Head, which is now out in theaters. John Nguyen: It looks like Marvel news is just surrounding you lately, with you campaigning for the...Read Full Story