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It looks impressive, but I'm not all that up with the cast. Particularly, I just don't see Matt Damon as a good Odysseus, even though I like him as an actor. Nor do I think much of Zendaya as Athena. Although I do think Charlize Theron as Circe is really great casting.
I'm also a little iffy on trying to do the Odyssey as a single movie (as near as I know, he's only doing the one). To me, in order to do the story justice it'd have to be either a 2 or 3 part movie, or a TV series.
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I'm excited about the concept of a high production value high budget movie of The Odyssey, but was very underwhelmed by the trailer. Considering that it's literally a story as old as time, there aren't really any plot points to keep secret, but the trailer showed a whole lot of nothing. Sure it had super quick, blink and you'll miss it, glimpses of things like the cyclops, or presumably soldiers/skeletons rising out of the earth, but as a whole, the teaser trailer didn't really do much for making me want to see a movie I'm already wanting to see. If I wasn't already wanting to see it, I don't think this would in any way make me interested.
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.....it's literally a story as old as time....
Not sure if it's true, since I don't do most social media, but apparently some dude reviewing the trailer made a comment he was amazed when found out this was based of a story that was thousands of years old. It made me very sad for the future of humanity, so I chose to believe it was someone joking. Still, I also would find it very easy to believe.
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I'm also a little iffy on trying to do the Odyssey as a single movie (as near as I know, he's only doing the one). To me, in order to do the story justice it'd have to be either a 2 or 3 part movie, or a TV series.
The movie will almost certainly put wildly differing amounts of emphasis on different parts of the story than the original did. To start with, the voyage up until Calypso's island is all told in flashback, and only fills 4 out of 24 books in the original epic. Similarly, the Trojan Horse only gets a very brief mention. But clearly, those are scenes that moviemakers will want squeeze as much spectacle out of as they possibly can. The other 20 books all take place in the last year of the ten that it takes Odysseus to get home. There is a lot here that can easily be condensed, starting with the first four books, which follow the now-grown Telemachus as he sets out on his own quest to find word of what happened to his father, and the last 8 or 9 books, which are devoted solely to events once Odysseus finally returns home (an essential endcap to the story, but only a few episodes out of many in the full arc).
For Homer, the human-scale homecoming was far more important than the highly fantastical wanderings, which is why it gets so much more space in the epic. (And the Iliad is even more extreme in its focus on "The Wrath of Achilles" episode from the 9th or 10th year of the war.) To fill out the story of either of those decades in the lavishly detailed way that modern audiences raised on streaming series clamor to see, you would have to draw from numerous lesser epics of the time, fill in the blanks yourself, or a mix of both. But that kind of long-term project is also a gigantic gamble, which is rarely (if ever) guaranteed to be supported through to the end. So instead, we get things like this and Troy, which try to craft a "good parts version" that will fit into only 2-3 hours. But if Nolan's Odyssey is even half as good as Troy, I'll be well pleased.
Anyone ever see the made for TV version? Effects so cheap that the hydra only got one head.
All I care about is Charybdis and Scylla. :p ;)