Now that The Odyssey is a huge success, what should be the next tale from antiquity to be made into a major film?
>>221855459This stuff is still funny so hopefully it won't be made into anything. Luckily no one has heard of it so it's useless as an attention grabbing IP
>>221855459The Golden Ass
>>221855459>The Odyssey is a huge success(Op) is IMAGINING THINGS
>>221855459I unironically want to see The Epic of Gilgamesh
Diogenes biopic
>>221855459this is a trippy story, but more of a shitpost, still very ahead of its time
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Prometeus, but making clear he's a shit character
The LysistrataIt would be so easy to make it fit into modern gender culture war too from whatever side
>>221855459The Mahabharata
>>221855459a gilgamesh movie with all in-camera & harryhausen style effects would be transcendent god tier kino
>>221855459The Satyricon
>>221855459The Herxheim archaeological site
>>221855459I'd like to see The Odyssey by Homer adapted into a major film. I think that could be really cool.
>>221855459>Lucian>Casually invents post-modernism
For me it's the Persian romance of Alexander
>>221855459dunno, but whatever it is should reliaibly get Elon Musk's fat pasty ass ratioed to shit again by a profoundly nerdy British historian
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>>221855840it is.
Lots of stuff from the Medieval and Renaissance eras, too. Has Gargantua and Pantagruel ever had a Hollywood film? Orlando Furioso? Paradise Lost? Etc.
epic of Gilgamesh>>221855864>>221856391
>>221855864>>221859758Yes.
>>221855459Your mother's pussy. We've all seen it.
>>221855459Trains, Planes and Plantains: the story of Oedipus
>>221859758>>221859799Why? The original epic is pretty poorly written. You'd need to retool a lot of the narrative so as to be something worth showing. Don't get me wrong. I'd really like to see it, the Ancient Near East is my favorite time period and place to read up on, but the various translations cannot shore up the borderline childish storytelling, nor the meandering portions of the narrative (the repeated dream sequences before they go fight Humbaba). In addition to trying to figure out which version to use, or fill in exactly what the fuck certain parts meant that lack context or how to add a feeling of importance to certain events. As an example, you first need to figure out exactly how Gilgamesh and Enkidu defeat Humbaba (there's a few versions), and then reveal that this whole journey and epic battle was done so that Gilgamesh could get wood from the forest to craft a door. I recognize that Gilgamesh is a turbo piece of shit and I understand the importance of wood relative to the society in question, but the audience will never grasp any of this. Not to mention that he remains a piece of shit even after Enkidu shows up, and it is only when Enkidu dies that he stops being a piece of shit, but he also doesn't attempt to redeem himself either. He allows his kingdom's glory to dim, and then abandons them all to go on a journey so that he might live forever because he's terrified of dying (the scene where Enkidu explains what the underworld is like is horrible, and I'd want to avoid that at all costs as well). He's not merely a flawed protagonist, he's just awful and brings repeated misery upon his people and his lands. If anything, the story ought to be portrayed as a cautionary tale for other rulers about how not rule. Even that doesn't really work because none of them were Gilgamesh, but I think you see my point (don't go around raping the women in your city, don't go around killing innocent men and women, don't go around disobeying the gods, etc.)
>>221855459The film barely actually adapted the Odyssey, shit had nothing to do with the epic itself. Hope modern Hollywood never touches an old epic ever again.
>>221855459>When they start fucking the treewomen and they trap them with their pussiesFucking kino. I'm very hyped for the second part. The will release it soon, I can feel it
>>221855459Argonautica
