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New idea? Oh piss off.
It's Ulysse 31 but live action... www.imdb.com/title/tt0131190/
Hollywood still has no original ideas
Director George Miller may have traveled nowhere with the now dead Justice League production but he's now looking to expand his horizons to space for Warner Bros. 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, with a touch of the sci-fi in mind.
Pitt's Plan B productions, Miller and Warner Bros. plan to transfer Homer's Greek tale of Odysseus' exploits to a futuristic setting in outer space.
Both Homer poems dealt with the Trojan War; "The Odyssey" focused on Odysseus, who hatched the idea to build the Trojan Horse. "The Odyssey" deals with his long journey home after he declines to become a god.
New idea? Oh piss off.
It's Ulysse 31 but live action... www.imdb.com/title/tt0131190/
Hollywood still has no original ideas
This idea of putting a greek tale in space won't work. It will, of course, as any classic tale when re-hashed too much, will be a box-office bomb. Brad and George better come up with some outstandingly superb ideas to deliver this epic tale or it'll end up as comically entertaining as "Clash of the Titans".
Over the past ten to twenty years, originality pretty much got thrown out the window save for couple of great television shows throughout the years. The Illiad and Homer's Odessey have been around for thousands of years and it still spawns great treatments! I'd rather have an awesome take on an ancient story then some crap whipped up to meet a deadline! I think this idea is awesome! Oh Brother Where Art Thou was an EXECELLENT movie, I wonder which tale that one was derived from?
Well, I wouldn't exactly say that something that was done almost 30 years ago as an obscure French cartoon that no one has ever heard of, and was only on for one season, is something that has been done to death. Anyway, at least it's got potential. We'll see if it goes anywhere. I guess this means Miller really is off of Justice League. Every time we think it's really dead, another report pops up that it's not gone yet. Hopefully it is dead and buried for good now, at least in the Miller/CW JL 90210 incarnation...
I don't care if it's original or not. I haven't seen anything like it so I'm ok with it. Bring it on.
I don't see why it wouldn't work, it wouldn't be the first, or tenth, time Hollywood adapted a classic. Examples: "West Side Story" is just Romeo and Juliet transported to 60s New York, "The Warriors" is Xenophon's march to the sea brought to 70's New York.
As soon i read this i thought exactly the same thing as darkedge. Ulysses 31. If you haven't heard of it before now fft5305 you were deprived as a youngster. It has hands down, the best theme song of any cartoon ever. check it out on Youtube. awesome song. I couldnt get it out of my head when i was young and it has popped into my head every now and then over the years. Now that Youtube is around and has all the the old cartoons i can relive my childhood with all those cool theme songs like M.A.S.K.
Ulysses 31 was a great show, with a great premise. I'm surprised it has taken this long to get a similar treatment
Sounds at least interesting to me. Perhaps it's going to be a new approach to the scifi or space-opera genre. I definetely will follow the news about the movie.