5 Mythical Tales That Need the Big-Screen Treatment After Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

There’s a very specific niche of Greek mythology geeks who think about the gods and goddesses at least once a day. Yes, it’s our Roman Empire, and with the news that Christopher Nolan (Interstellar) is going to meticulously assemble the grand myth of The Odyssey for the big screen with quite the epic cast, we’re so ready for it to be our time. Most recently, we’ve gotten a smattering of adaptations here and there—big swings resulting in misses, like Netflix’s Kaos starring Jeff Goldblum as Zeus (which was ahead of its time), and little swings that have catapulted new visions of the Persephone and Hades myth to great heights, as seen in Rachel Smythe’s Lore Olympus and the Hades video games. Many of the tales’ original texts have been revisited and reinterpreted from the patriarchal-leaning translations; there’s also a trend of turning to other versions of the myths that have long existed but haven’t been as widely told, bringing new foundations to the stories we thought we knew. For o ... Read full article.