Warner Bros. Set Fedor Bondarchuk To Direct ODYSSEUS

Warner Bros. Set Fedor Bondarchuk To Direct ODYSSEUS

The studio has hired Russian director Fedor Bondarchuk (Stalingrad) to helm their "large-scale" take on Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey. This one has been planned for a while, and now it seems we'll finally see Odysseus/Ulysses battle the Cyclops on the big screen.

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By MarkCassidy - Jul 02, 2014 02:07 AM EST
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Source: Deadline

Deadline report that Warner Bros. has hired Fedor Bondarchuk to direct Odysseus, their big screen adaptation of Homer’s poem "The Odyssey". The story follows Greek king Odysseus (better known to '80s cartoon fans as Ulysses) as he journeys home after the 10-year long Trojan war. encountering many perils and mythical beasts, including the Cyclops Polyphemus. The character was actually played by Sean Bean in the movie Troy, though that adaptation removed all fantasy elements from the story. Jeremy Doner is on script duties, with Gianni Nunnari, Bernie Goldmann and Shannon Gaulding producing.
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RR51
RR51 - 7/2/2014, 3:06 AM
Have no idea about the director, but the story was written for a blockbuster and it's being written by the guy who wrote the Killing, so this could actually be decent time at the movies.
Mothchild
Mothchild - 7/2/2014, 3:12 AM
Alrighty then
ICEMAN5151
ICEMAN5151 - 7/2/2014, 3:13 AM
DARE I SAY...EPIC!
Earthbound
Earthbound - 7/2/2014, 3:25 AM
About time they made this.
McGee
McGee - 7/2/2014, 3:25 AM
All I remember from reading it in school was...they go to this one island, where they meet Circe. She transforms all his men into pigs and Odysseus bangs this chick all day, every day for like...years or something. Then one day, he wakes up and is all like "I must finish my mission!"
McGee
McGee - 7/2/2014, 3:29 AM
The moral of the story being....you can only bang a chick for so long before you get tired of her.
HeroWithAThousandFaces
HeroWithAThousandFaces - 7/2/2014, 3:29 AM
Loved the book! About time they made this into a film. Better be epic.
jonnytheshirt
jonnytheshirt - 7/2/2014, 3:37 AM
Ulysses 31, don't know if the US got that animated series, but it was a real gem from my childhhod. A Japanese-French collaboration, was a rare and pretty awesome 80's series.
mgeoff88
mgeoff88 - 7/2/2014, 3:42 AM
This sounds like this could have a lot of potential.
Mothchild
Mothchild - 7/2/2014, 3:42 AM
@ johhnytheshirt

that is one of the best series!! Loved watching that growing up. City of Gold was good too.
DrNomid
DrNomid - 7/2/2014, 3:56 AM
Ok, I'm russian, I know who Bondarchuk is...and now I;m a little scared for Odysseus
SuperCat
SuperCat - 7/2/2014, 4:05 AM


RexDartEskimoSpy
RexDartEskimoSpy - 7/2/2014, 4:21 AM
Y'know what would be a better title that Odysseus? THE ODYSSEY.

Biblical tales are coming back to the big screen, there a cleopatra in the works with jolie playing her, ridley scotts Noah with bale in the title role and now this


Wow. You need to cut back on the glue sniffing, Nubase.
MsDarkPhoenix
MsDarkPhoenix - 7/2/2014, 4:27 AM
Awesome, ruin more great ancient Greek poems by turning them into stupid movies, YOU CAN DO IT!!!

And don't you dare tell me that I shouldn't judge before I see it, 100% of the movie adaptations of such myths turn out to be just stupid movies that are hardly based on the original story so [frick] off.

GREEK AND PROUD MOTHER[frick]ERS!!!!!
MsDarkPhoenix
MsDarkPhoenix - 7/2/2014, 4:30 AM
@McGee He actually [frick]s Circe for some days but it turns out that eveyday in her island is a whole year in the real world so he leaves her to go back to his wife Penelope and son Telemachus, who he saw as a baby and came back when he was 20!! What an amazing father :P
Ace101
Ace101 - 7/2/2014, 4:41 AM
Great story but like all greek myth movies they wont do em justice. Currently reading the Illiad for the first time in ages.
Mothchild
Mothchild - 7/2/2014, 4:42 AM
@ MsDarkPhoenix

I hope he's into MILFs then.
Super12
Super12 - 7/2/2014, 4:45 AM
Looking forward to this. Thatd be cool if they got Sean Bean back for it
EmeritusII
EmeritusII - 7/2/2014, 4:47 AM
Brainiac13
Brainiac13 - 7/2/2014, 4:51 AM
@jonnytheshirt
@Mothchild

I loved this show..
Brainiac13
Brainiac13 - 7/2/2014, 4:53 AM
Mothchild
Mothchild - 7/2/2014, 4:59 AM
@ Brainiac13 and jonnytheshirt

I have two distinct memories of that show; the Sisyphus episode and when all the crew members were floating in the ship in a coma state.

good times, good times.
grif
grif - 7/2/2014, 5:29 AM
WB had plans a long while back to make this as a sequel to TROY. i would love to see that with sean bean
OpticBlastWins
OpticBlastWins - 7/2/2014, 6:09 AM
Troy was amazing but they need to keep the fantasy in this one. Im sure they tried real hard to make the troy sequel but knew it wouldnt hold up
shabat
shabat - 7/2/2014, 6:26 AM
I'm with DarkPheonix on this one. I just have a bad feeling it's gonna be more Clash of Titans or whatever that weak shit was.

@Alien that's hilarious that same line ran through my head as I was reading this!
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 7/2/2014, 6:46 AM
Greece had to sell the movie rights to their history in order to avoid bankruptcy.
jonnytheshirt
jonnytheshirt - 7/2/2014, 7:06 AM
@Brainiac13 & Mothchild - oh yeah, back in the day when theme tunes were theme tunes. I dunno if its just me but most TV series nowadays have totally forgettable music. I reckon Daft Punk were big fans as their animation circa Discovery album INterstella 5555 was very like U31.
MsDarkPhoenix
MsDarkPhoenix - 7/2/2014, 7:11 AM
@b&y I've said like a million times that we should ask for money for the movie rights!! But apparently, I guess since the writers are dead for centuries, we can't claim them...
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 7/2/2014, 7:30 AM
Can't believe it took this long to launch an Odyssey movie.
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 7/2/2014, 7:39 AM
Cool. It's a great story, hope they do it right.

And can some give @Nubase a clue please? Cleopatra and The Odyssey, biblical? Dafuq?
Dmon
Dmon - 7/2/2014, 7:58 AM
Sean Bean should be King Odysseus
SCURVYDOG619
SCURVYDOG619 - 7/2/2014, 8:57 AM
Meanwhile, a God of War movie just sits in development hell....
Ranger14
Ranger14 - 7/2/2014, 10:16 AM
It would need to be done as a trilogy to do it justice and yes, don't give us another Clash of the Titans (as in the reboot).
Tony93
Tony93 - 7/2/2014, 10:30 AM
why not just make an AQUAMAN movie
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