Lionsgate And ‘The Hunger Games’ Architects Take On Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’
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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.
I will say this -- if Lionsgate wants to work with this team for three movies in a row (four if you count Catching Fire), then they must be really pleased with MJP2. Furthermore, they're prolly already done editing MJP2 and are just waiting for the special effects to be rendered at this point.
I will say this -- if Lionsgate wants to work with this team for three movies in a row (four if you count Catching Fire), then they must be really pleased with MJP2. Furthermore, they're prolly already done editing MJP2 and are just waiting for the special effects to be rendered at this point.
Don't they have one more scene to shoot for MJ2? But yes. I'm sure they are happy with the last 3 films from F-Law. I've heard HG fans call him that.
Hugh Jackman is eyeing the lead role in director Francis Lawrence’s The Odyssey movie
It was revealed back in April that Lionsgate has plans to develop a new big screen The Odyssey movie, based on Homer’s ancient poem. Francis Lawrence, who directed the second, third and fourth films in The Hunger Games franchise is set to helm with Mockingjay scribe Peter Craig writing and Nina Jacobson, responsible for the entire Hunger Games franchise, producing. Now, Variety reveals that The Odyssey movie is negotiating with The Wolverine star Hugh Jackman to play the part of Odysseus.
Believed to have been written near the end of the 8th century BC, The Odyssey is a sequel of sorts to Homer’s The Iliad. It follows the adventures of the warrior Odysseus and the fantastic trials and tribulations he encounters on his decade-long journey home to Greece after the fall of Troy. Among the obstacles he encounters in his journey are the Cyclops Polyphemus, the six-headed Scylla, the whirlpool sea monster Charybdis and the birdlike sirens.
The Odyssey has been adapted several times for the big screen in various iterations, ranging from the straightforward 1954 adaptation Ulysses, starring Kirk Douglas in the lead, to Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2000 hit, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, starring George Clooney in a musical 1930s adaptation set in the deep south.
Jackman starred earlier this year in Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie and can next be seen playing the villainous pirate Blackbeard in Pan, director Joe Wright’s “origin story” of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. He’s also slated to reprise his role as Marvel Comics’ Wolverine in a still-untitled film from director James Mangold. Set for release March 3, 2017, it has been made clear that the film will be Jackman’s final performance as the character.
Production on The Odyssey movie is planned to begin in early 2016 with Erik Feig, Jim Miller and James Myers overseeing for Lionsgate.
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