Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Roman Polanski was supposed to helm the giant $100 million epic POMPEII, but they've put the kibosh on it because 2008 is the year of looming strikes. We've heard about the Writer's strike, but what hasn't been talked about as much is that both the Director's Guild and Screen Actor's Guilds have contracts expiring in June, so there's more than a small chance we'll be seeing the power politics shit being played out again.

It's because of these looming strike possibilities that agents aren't committing their clients to appearing in anything after June 30th. That is fucking the 18 months of preproduction that has gone into this giant flick and Polanski has decided to shelve it.

The good news is that if there is a quick deal and no strike, then Polanski's still onboard, not taking another project in the meantime. Hopefully RUSH HOUR 4 doesn't get put on the fast track where he'll be tempted to embarrass himself some more on the big screen...