We know exactly what happened here. Hollywood is a small circle. This project was iced because Nolan's monsterpiece was already swimming around in some producer's nocturnal fantasies.
Nolan was chosen because he has a built in fan base and public trust, rare indeed for modern Hollywood.
The Odyssey was chosen because, aside from the Bible, it is the single most important cultural artifact of Western Civilization.
This cultural destruction is, and always has been, deliberate. They want to destroy the foundational myth of Western Society because it is the only truly free and uplifting society mankind has ever created.
That's why it's endured for thousands of years against seemingly insurmountable odds. It's why God himself has blessed it, and why the demonically aligned strive endlessly to belittle, diminish, undermine, and destroy it.
Mel Gibson would have honored the Odyssey. Nolan, as we see, is determined to profane it. Again, we all know what happened to Gibson's project and why.
Now this version of the Odyssey is going to be the reference source for any discussion about the story, the same way Peter Jackson's LotR, despite being "mostly, sorta accurate", are considered canon by most kids born since 2000.
The books may as well fade to dust. Beowulf or maybe Gilgamesh are next. They tried Beowulf once before and it cratered. But now everyone in Hollywood will be out to remake, and butcher, fundamental classics that built the most successful civilizations on Earth since the the days of the Pharaohs.
Just imagine if a more mythologically-inclined screenwriter and director had adapted “The Odyssey” 10-15 years after “Troy,” with Sean Bean returning as Odysseus. Between that and the Mel Gibson version, we were robbed twice.
I would have loved Mel Gibson as Odysseus, I am betting that it would also have been very accurate in terms of languages, costumes and settings.
I wouldn't have been surprised at all if he insisted on filming it in Greek. That would have been awesome.
We know exactly what happened here. Hollywood is a small circle. This project was iced because Nolan's monsterpiece was already swimming around in some producer's nocturnal fantasies.
Nolan was chosen because he has a built in fan base and public trust, rare indeed for modern Hollywood.
The Odyssey was chosen because, aside from the Bible, it is the single most important cultural artifact of Western Civilization.
This cultural destruction is, and always has been, deliberate. They want to destroy the foundational myth of Western Society because it is the only truly free and uplifting society mankind has ever created.
That's why it's endured for thousands of years against seemingly insurmountable odds. It's why God himself has blessed it, and why the demonically aligned strive endlessly to belittle, diminish, undermine, and destroy it.
Mel Gibson would have honored the Odyssey. Nolan, as we see, is determined to profane it. Again, we all know what happened to Gibson's project and why.
Now this version of the Odyssey is going to be the reference source for any discussion about the story, the same way Peter Jackson's LotR, despite being "mostly, sorta accurate", are considered canon by most kids born since 2000.
The books may as well fade to dust. Beowulf or maybe Gilgamesh are next. They tried Beowulf once before and it cratered. But now everyone in Hollywood will be out to remake, and butcher, fundamental classics that built the most successful civilizations on Earth since the the days of the Pharaohs.
Just imagine if a more mythologically-inclined screenwriter and director had adapted “The Odyssey” 10-15 years after “Troy,” with Sean Bean returning as Odysseus. Between that and the Mel Gibson version, we were robbed twice.
You’re breaking my heart here. We could have had a Gibson Odyssey instead of that corrupt broken movie built only to satisfy Oscar requirements?