Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Trouble in Ithaca

In the news this morning:

Hollywood's Warner Bros. studio has hired Jonathan Liebesman to direct a movie inspired by Homer's epic Greek poem The Odyssey. . . .

Odysseus is about what happens when the king of Ithaca returns home after years of fighting the Trojan Wars and discovers his kingdom is occupied by an invading force, the entertainment industry trade newspaper [Variety] noted.
Wars? No, war. His kingdom? No, his oikos. An invading force? No, young aristocrats seeking to marry Penelope.

The article notes that Liebesman is the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006).

O, ye gods.

comments: 2

JuliaR said...

Ha! Initially, I read this:
"and discovers his kingdom is occupied by an invading force, the entertainment industry trade newspaper"
as meaning his kingdom was invaded by Variety. Hilarious.

Michael Leddy said...

Yes. : )