{"id":25912,"date":"2013-01-15T08:15:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T13:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=25912"},"modified":"2013-01-15T08:15:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T13:15:48","slug":"warners-developing-sci-fi-version-of-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/15\/warners-developing-sci-fi-version-of-the-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"Warners Developing Sci-Fi Version Of THE ODYSSEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/odyssey.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-25913\" alt=\"odyssey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/odyssey-300x195.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/odyssey-300x195.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/odyssey.gif 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Warner Brothers is looking at transporting one of the most classic pieces of adventure fiction into outer space &#8211; Homer&#8217;s <em>The Odyssey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The studio has just hired newcomer screenwriter James DiLapo to adapt the classic Greek epic, substituting spacesuits and rockets for togas and boats. The studio sees this project as a possible franchise launcher.<\/p>\n<p>For those who snoozed through their various high school or college literature classes, The Odyssey was Homer&#8217;s sequel to <strong>The Illiad<\/strong> in which hero Odysseus 10 year struggle to return home from the Trojan Wars to resume his role as King of Ithaca. Along the way he and his men encounter a variety of gods and monsters including a cyclops and the witch Circe.<\/p>\n<p>Although DiLapano is fairly fresh out of New York University and doesn&#8217;t have any produced credits yet, he was the winner of the Nichols Fellowship last year and had his spec script<strong> Devils At Play<\/strong>, a paranoid thriller set in 1937 Soviet Union, make the 2012 Black List. The Warners brass are impressed enough with his work that they have given him a deal just to stay with the studio.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, this doesn&#8217;t strike me as such a bad idea. Classic stories have been transposed into other genres all the time. The works of Shakespeare have been made into everything from science-fiction films (<strong>Forbidden Planet<\/strong>) to teen comedies (<strong>10 Things I Hate About You<\/strong>). And since outer space can be as inhabited with dangerous beings and situations as Greek mythology, why not set the story there?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/01\/warner-bros-moves-forward-with-space-bound-the-odyssey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Substituting togas and boats for spacesuits and rockets.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/15\/warners-developing-sci-fi-version-of-the-odyssey\/\" title=\"Warners Developing Sci-Fi Version Of THE ODYSSEY\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[6007,6006],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-james-dilapo","9":"tag-the-odyssey"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25912"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=25912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}