Kit Harington’s 105-Minute Disaster Epic Is Officially Leaving Netflix

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Published Oct 17, 2026, 7:45 PM EDT

Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once.

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One of the most successful auteur directors of the 2000s, Paul W.S. Anderson, attempted to diversify his output after helming a handful of Resident Evil movies. But both his attempts to branch out — he made two period movies — underperformed critically and commercially. In 2011, Anderson directed an action-packed reimagining of The Three Musketeers, starring Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen, Mads Mikkelsen, Christoph Waltz, Orlando Bloom, and others. Despite the stacked cast, the movie could only gross around $130 million worldwide and score 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. Two years later, Anderson released another period movie that fell short of box-office expectations and received poor reviews. The movie in question is currently streaming on Netflix, but only for a little while longer.

It marked the grand big-screen starring debut of Kit Harington, who'd recently broken out with HBO's Game of Thrones. He starred alongside Emily Browning, best known for starring in A Series of Unfortunate Events and Sucker Punch. The film revolved around the romance of their characters, and was set against the backdrop of a real-life tragedy — similar to Titanic and Pearl Harbor. Like his Three Musketeers movie, Anderson was able to attract an eclectic cast including Jared Harris, Kiefer Sutherland, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Carrie-Anne Moss.

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We're talking, of course, about the disaster romance film Pompeii. Produced on a reported budget of around $100 million, the film grossed a little more than $115 million worldwide. It holds a 27% score on Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, "This big-budget sword-and-sandal adventure lacks the energy and storytelling heft to amount to more than a guilty pleasure." Anderson returned to helm one last installment in the Resident Evil franchise, which turned out to be the biggest hit of his career with a $314-million global haul. His most recent film was the George R.R. Martin adaptation In the Lost Lands, starring Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista. Pompeii is currently streaming on Netflix, but it'll be removed from the streamer on November 1. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.