The people behind ‘The Hunger Games’ are making Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ into a movie.
After turning a popular book series into a successful blockbuster, The Hunger Games producer Nina Jacobson, director Francis Lawrence, and Mockingjay scriptwriter Peter Craig are now teaming up to take on one of the most popular literary classics in history: Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’.
From Deadline:
Lionsgate has put this on a fast track. The plan is to begin production early next year, right after the filmmakers complete promotion of Mockingjay – Part 2, which will be released November 20. Motion Picture Group co-president Erik Feig is overseeing this with exec production veep Jim Miller and development director James Myers. The project took root when Feig pitched it to Lawrence in Paris while they worked on the Hunger Games finale.
Movie studios are changing the way they make movies into franchises, instead of creating original stories, producers have found that remaking existing productions are far more successful. But, can the production company that made Jennifer Lawrence famous, take on a Greek poem? Will this new movie be a teen version of ‘Game of Thrones’? It is too early to tell. However, with 12,1100 lines of dactylic hexameter to work with expect Lionsgate to make at least four movies out of this epic tale.
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