>>219030185Rights issues
I'm sure a guy trying to achieve immortality and then falling asleep instead would be great on the silver screen
Too perfect a story for the modern age to handle, it either comes out absolute shit (most likely intentionally) or in the incredibly rare chance somebody manages to pull it off it destroys the movie industry because nobody can make something half as good.
The jews don't want people to figure out that their fairy tales were stolen from older religions of countries that took them as slaves.
>la poopee de gilgameshEuropean babble sounds like this and ESLs have the absolute gall to look down on us for only speaking American
>>219030185I'd say it doesn't have as much mass marketability as biblical stories or Greek myths. Honestly we might be living in the period with the highest chance of Gilgamesh kino since internet culture seems to have re-popularized it again (if only slightly)
>>219030185Enkidu is icsh
Unfilmable books general?
>>219030185They know they can’t top this.
too epic
>>219030185Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra?
>>219030372that's true, Noah or someone like him is in the story
>>219030425French and Polish are in my top 10 worst languages
It's currently a victim of historical revisionism, anytime Gilgamesh is mentioned outside of this site you'll see a bunch of people show up claiming he and Enkidu were gay because they're soulless hylics who can't comprehend having a close friendship
>>219032043Enkidu’s whole story is about a man living happily in nature until BIG GOVERNMENT uses a THOT to manipulate him into dying in pointless foreign wars
>>219031689Some archaeologists believe myths of global floods in lost civilizations are based on the ice age event , called melt water pulse 1b. A comet struck greenland's ice sheet flash vaporizing a huge amount of water which causes sealevels to rise dramatically in just a few days destroying thousands of coastal settlements overnight.
>>219031689Whoa, the guy who is supposedly the ancestor of all currently living humans is in stories from multiple cultures?
>>219030463They could cut out the rape scene. Its not super important to the overall plot the wacky synesthesia freak out could just be done with flashing colors and sounds
>oldest written story in history>one of the major themes is longing for the past when life was simplerI guess the grass really is always greener on the other side
>>219032430I remember a Mesopotamian tablet that was written as a message from a father to his son and the #1 thing it explained was "don't talk about your politics in public".
>>219030185They would have to look for middle-easterns to play the lead roles. It's too late to do brownwashing like the old days
>>219032507Modern middle easterners are arab. That wasn't the group that lived there at the time.
>>219032185No, they just stole the story. All evidence points to the Flood myth being proto-Mesopotamian, which was then codified after they migrated to the fertile crescent. We know this because the story of Utnapishtim takes place an incredibly long time before Gilgamesh was alive. From the King List, you can get an idea of how much time they felt had passed since the flood to the point in which Gilgamesh (who was already a long since mythologized figure) had his story created. We can get a feeling that this happened thousands of years before the story was written down due to the king list, and the story itself wasn't preserved by Mesopotamians but Assyrians. That should give you some idea of just how fuckin' old this story is, and how long before the very concept of an ethnic Jewish/Israeli people were even a twinkle in someone's eye. They took it just like they took most of their laws from law codes that predate them.
>>219032662See >>219032129
>>219030551 Because you literally posted the platonic ideal of terminally online Gilgamesh.Every time someone says “Epic of Gilgamesh adaptation” some producer’s assistant Googles it and the first thing that pops up is blonde tsundere king with magic nukes yelling about mongrels.You can’t make a $200M prestige Bronze Age epic when half the potential audience is going to compare your historically accurate Mesopotamian demigod to an anime guy with red eyes and a treasury dimension.Fate unironically poisoned the well. Now any live-action version either gets called mid for not having Gate of Babylon CGI spam or gets accused of copying anime.They really can’t top it - not because it’s definitive, but because it’s already colonized the modern imagination.
