Lionsgate And ‘The Hunger Games’ Architects Take On Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

EXCLUSIVE: Finishing this fall with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, Lionsgate is developing a grand-scale retelling of history’s greatest voyage home, Homer’s The Odyssey. To accomplish this epic, Lionsgate has enlisted Francis Lawrence to direct, Peter Craig to write and Nina Jacobson to produce. Lawrence directed three of the four Hunger Games films, Craig co-scripted the two installments of Mockingjay, and Jacobson and her Color Force have shepherded the franchise from the very beginning. Lawrence also helmed I Am Legend and Craig co-wrote The Town with Ben Affleck.

Lionsgate has put this on a fast track. The plan is to begin production early next year, right after the filmmakers complete promotion of Mockingjay – Part 2, which will be released November 20. Lawrence has committed to make this his next project. Motion Picture Group co-president Erik Feig is overseeing this with exec production veep Jim Miller and development director James Myers. The project took root when Feig pitched it to Lawrence in Paris while they worked on the Hunger Games finale.

The epic has been done several times by Hollywood in films and TV, either directly or indirectly. Kirk Douglas starred in the 1954 film Ulysses, and films from Tim Burton’s Big Fish to Joel and Ethan Coen’s O Brother, Where Are Thou were said to be inspired by Homer’s famed poem about a long voyage home after the conclusion of the Trojan War.

http://deadline.com/2015/04/the-odys...on-1201406441/

Thoughts?

[jscoggins]

How many movies?

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Originally Posted by jscoggins

How many movies?

Are you one of the people in the comment sections there? They said the same thing.

[jscoggins]

Originally Posted by Michael Bay Fan

Are you one of the people in the comment sections there? They said the same thing.

Well, it took him 10 years to get back home. If Lionsgate is smart, they'll make 10 movies, one for each year of the journey.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Originally Posted by jscoggins

Well, it took him 10 years to get back home. If Lionsgate is smart, they'll make 10 movies, one for each year of the journey.

LOL. Now I'm just waiting for a rumor of a certain person to be attached to it.

[Rblu-Dblu]

Originally Posted by jscoggins

Well, it took him 10 years to get back home. If Lionsgate is smart, they'll make 10 movies, one for each year of the journey.

They'll split each year into two movies.

[MifuneFan]

Sweet, I love The Simpsons

[jscoggins]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Sweet, I love The Simpsons

[DanTheMan]

If Lawrence isn't involved, forget it!

[Show spoiler]Francis Lawrence, for the record.

[Alfred McGuffin]

Originally Posted by jscoggins

How many movies?

This was my first thought when I heard about the movie. Since it appears there will only be one movie I'm hoping for a run time of at least 3 hours; anything less would not do justice to the story.

More importantly it must not be demythologized like the Iliad was in Troy. The fantastical elements are so important to the story that such take would be disastrous.

I like the casting Jackman. I wonder who they will cast for Penelope? I think Ayelet Zurer (of Daredevil fame) would be good choice.