Hugh Jackman may have found his next big-budget franchise, just as he prepares to sheathe those Wolverine claws for good. He's reportedly looking to lead Francis Lawrence's adaptation of the epic Greek poem The Odyssey, envisioned as a multiple-film series for Lionsgate. More about the Hugh Jackman Odyssey casting after the jump. TheWrap reports Jackman…
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There's a Lionsgate Odyssey in the making -- specifically a film adaptation of Homer's poem -- and it will be split into multiple films.
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The follow-up to the Hunger Games will see that series' filmmaking team tackling Homer's classic story The Odyssey.
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While such as The Coen Brothers have flirted with the influence of ancient epic poems, in O Brother Where Art Thou? and Inside Llewyn Davis, but it’s been a few years since US producers did a full-scale film based on one of Homer’s works. (Troy, from 2004, adapted The Iliad.) Enter Fedor Bondarchuk, whose WWII…
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Even in our wildest, 11th grade English class imaginations, few could have seen this one coming. Warner Bros. is taking one of the greatest stories ever told, The Odyssey by Homer, and having it rewritten in space. James DiLapo gets the assignment, a young screenwriter whose movie, Devils At Play, was on the 2012 Black…
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America's very own Kenny Powers aka The Man with the Golden Dick is officially leaving North Carolina and shipping off to play ball(s) in Mexico, better known as Hell on Earth in recent months due to drug cartel violence, kidnappings, and the rest of it. So, yikes, the "sour patch" seems only to worsen for Danny…
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