Brad Pitt linked to Homer’s epic “The Odyssey”
Warner Bros are working on a movie adaptation of Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey” after turning Homer’s “The Iliad” into the 2004 film “Troy.”
“The Iliad” was the basis for the 2004 film “Troy,” which was directed by Wolfgang Petersen and saw Brad Pitt played Achilles.
“The Odyssey” follows on from “The Iliad” and tells of Odysseus’s exploits on his ten-year journey home from war – after he declines to become a god – to his wife Penelope and son Telemachus.
Warner Bros has quietly set up “The Odyssey,” and the early hope is that Pitt will star and George Miller will direct, with Pitt’s Plan B producing.
Their intention is to transfer “The Odyssey” to a futuristic setting in outer space.
Pitt will next be seen in the David Fincher-directed “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and the Terrence Malick-directed “Tree of Life.” He just began shooting the Quentin Tarantino-directed “Inglourious Basterds.”
George Miller remains attached to direct “Justice League.”
Diane Kruger: ‘Troy’ kind of sucked
Diane Kruger has admitted that she doesn’t like her breakthrough movie Troy.
Kruger said: “You can’t tell whether or not I can act from Troy. It kind of sucked to be honest.”
Kruger played Helen of Troy in the 2004 Illiad epic opposite Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom and Eric Bana and wasn’t happy with the type of roles offered to her after its release.
“I was just starting out and didn’t want to play all the parts I was subsequently offered in these big movies. I had to get out,” Kruger explained.
The 31-year-old star added that Hollywood isn’t interested in acting talent.
“What counts in Hollywood is box office,” Kruger explained.
“It doesn’t really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.”
