Movies I'm amazed we haven't had yet...

[Zardoz!]

Given the success of "300" and "LotR" I'm amazed we haven't seen a new movie of "The argonauts" or "The illiad" recently...

[GregMcduck]

SHHH! YOU'LL JINX IT!

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

you got your order wrong.  we just had beowolf so next will be cantebury tales then dantes inferno.

[Junkyard]

A Hollywood approved Dante's Inferno...





..... So, I'm thinking suicide by suffocation. Plastic bag, a minute or two, then it's over. Are we agreed?

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

no cynanide punch?  i rather like punch 

[Pak-Man]

Well Troy only came out a couple years ago. Too soon to go back to the Illiad. I WOULD like to see a modern Odyssey movie. :^)

[Big Blonde]

Well Troy only came out a couple years ago. Too soon to go back to the Illiad. I WOULD like to see a modern Odyssey movie. :^)

There already is one, it's called O Brother Where Art Thou.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

what about finnigans wake?

[Minnesota]

I'd like to see a big budget Odyssey movie

[RoninFox]

Well Troy only came out a couple years ago. Too soon to go back to the Illiad. I WOULD like to see a modern Odyssey movie. :^)

I'd like to see a big budget Odyssey movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945580/  Just heard about this one today.

[Cibernético II]

YEs. And maybe Peter Jackson will redo the Deathstalker Quadrilogy

[Junkyard]

Well, I'm suprised they haven't mutilated Carnacki the Ghost Hunter yet.

[Tripe]

you got your order wrong.  we just had beowolf so next will be cantebury tales then dantes inferno.

Sigh, non English majors

The next after Beowulf would be Piers Ploughman.

Actually a film of The Canterbury Tales would be great

[eclipt1c]

I honestly don't understand why Hollywood hasn't done a good, faithful, big budget Illiad.  I mean come on, it's like the most violent thing ever conceived, and no one has taken the task to put it on film.  If you haven't read it, there are only about 3 chapters where something pivotal to the plot really happens, the other 21 books are people getting stabbed through the base of the skull with spears.  Plus you could fairly easily cut the movie down to a reasonable length by cutting out some of the battles.

It's got everything for Hollywood

-ridiculous ultra-violence
-over the top drama of Achilles and anyone he interacts with
-fairly minimal plot, which is entirely in the context of the slaughtering
-women hot enough to go to war for 10 years over or to sit out of the fight over


Odyssey would be a bit more complex as there's ALWAYS something going on in terms of the plot, so I'd have to say that a miniseries would suit it best, but not the Armand Assante one.

[Tripe]

What they should do for  a real adaptation of the Iliad, and for that matter, the Odyssey, is get Tony Robinson to write one.

Yes, Baldrick from Blackadder, his children's books on Odysseus are fantastic and I'm sure he could make them a little more grown up, he doesn't shy from describing the violence as it is.