Oct 17 2008Brad Pitt Playing Space Odysseus
Warner Bros. and Brad Pitt are teaming with director George Miller in adapting a film version of Homer's epic poem The Odyssey ...IN SPACE! From Variety:
After turning Homer's epic poem "The Iliad" into the 2004 film "Troy," Warner Bros. and Brad Pitt are teaming with George Miller to adapt the Greek poet's other masterwork, "The Odyssey."Their intention is to transfer the tale to a futuristic setting in outer space.
Warner Bros. has quietly set up "The Odyssey," and the early hope is that Pitt will star and Miller will direct, with Pitt's Plan B producing.Pitt played Achilles in the Wolfgang Petersen-directed "Troy," a global blockbuster that David Benioff adapted from "The Iliad."
So long, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey! There's a new space odyssey in town, and it has Brad Pitt and more obvious allegory! Do you think they'll try keep the names, but give them a sci-fi spin? Telemachus would be pretty awesome as the television-headed cyborg Tele-machinus 5.
Reader Comments
1. sc00by - October 17, 2008 3:24 PM
Can anyone say Ulysses 31? Well, i hope its like that... that show was awsome!
2. the sysop - October 17, 2008 3:28 PM
like a monkey... ready to be shot into space
3. PurpleJedi - October 17, 2008 3:42 PM
This has the potential to be VERY interesting if well-executed...or the death of Pitt's career if done poorly.
4. TetraShiva - October 17, 2008 4:06 PM
Pitt still hasn't agreed to this. Warner Bros just set up a trap to get the man to produce and star in it.
I'm...skeptical this will actually come to pass.
5. K lee - October 17, 2008 5:47 PM
@ 3
If Troy didn't kill it, nothing will.
6. Name - October 17, 2008 6:05 PM
Having Brad Pitt star in an "Odyssey" movie is a pretty big middle finger to Sean Bean who played Odysseus in "Troy"
7. Mr. BoJangles - October 17, 2008 7:12 PM
I think making the Odyssey-in-space is kind of a mistake. I'd rather see "2000: A Space Illiad" or "2002: A Space Aneid."
8. Sueyo - October 17, 2008 8:23 PM
#6, you got it.
Here I was waiting for an Odyssey film starring Sean Bean (who always seems to get the short end of the stick when it comes to the movies he plays in), then they turn around and make some crazy thing starring Brad Pitt *again* as *Sean Bean's* character in Troy - and what else do they do? Set it in space! Epic.
Why can't Hollywood just make a good Odyssey film starring Sean Bean that's actually set in the right period? Sheesh.
9. smatt584 - October 18, 2008 7:18 PM
Yeah, what the hell happened to Sean Bean? He would be badass in an actual sequel to "Troy". That was one of the best bits of casting from that movie. I would actually watch that, unlike this bullshit.
10. fred p - October 19, 2008 9:54 AM
let's just rape another piece of literary genius that encompasses so much more than hollywood ever good. There really should be a law against this sort of thing. Either that or an angry mob should go and shove pitch forks and torches up WB's arses. Fucking bastards.
11. Odysseus - October 20, 2008 1:15 PM
@10 QFT
Although, O' brother where art though, was "loosely" based on the odyssey and that was hilarious.
This one will rank up there with Lost in space, the movie. Maybe matt leblanc will be in it.