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[martyrssmile]

Okay, since I've been asked a few times.
My Beowulf squee is the squee of a lit dork who has just found out one of her favorite lit dorkeries (mmm Epic) is coming to a theatre near me in November

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[drpooka]

"Now if only we could get someone to do a full on epic Illiad"

What, didn't like "Troy"?

*ducks*

[martyrssmile]

DIAF

[samldanach]

A full on epic Illiad would need to be a trilogy. The first movie would be, essentially, the prequel. Paris' judgement, the kidnap of Helen, etc. Because you can't expect a modern audience to know what came before. Then split the actual Illiad into two. I'd have to read it again to work out a good break point. Then, for my own personal pet peeve, leave the actual sack of Troy and Trojan horse to a fourth movie (since that never appears in the Illiad, and is in fact only in the Aeneid

[martyrssmile]

I know Illiad wouldn't ever really get going. So its my baseline pipedream. Alas. There just aren';t enough greek lit dorks to justify the huge cost of such a movie.

And, I must say, it surprised me that you didn't know it was Neil Gaiman.

I pay almost no attention to hollywood. Bourne Ultimatum was the last movie I know I saw in the theatre since... Dawn of the Dead I think. So almost a year. I don't watch TV, I don't read blogs of people I don't personally know, and just like a week ago heard he had Stardust coming out.

And Neverwhere? Adjusted? Heresy.
(I say, having the BBC production on VHS like a good fanatical lunatic)