With the massive success of "The Hunger Games" franchise, Lionsgate Films wants to continue striking while the iron is hot. This time around, the California-based film production/distribution studio wish to retell Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey into the silver screen with the same creative team that has delivered "The Hunger Games" to
With a report from Deadline, Lionsgate yearns for director Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend), writer Peter Craig (The Town) and producer Nina Jacobson to deliver the same winning formula for Odysseus' journey home to his island of Ithaca unto the silver screen. Lawrence has been the man behind the camera for three of the four "Hunger Games" movies. Craig has co-scripted Mockingjay 1 and Mockingjay 2. Meanwhile, Jacobson and her production company, Color Force has guided the franchise film from its inception along with producing the films "One Day" and "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" franchise.
With The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 to be released on November 20, 2015, the 'creative team' will immediately begin their production fueld by a confident desire to keep going their blockbuster success. Erik Feig, the co-presidentof Lionsgate Motion Picture Group sold the idea to Lawrence when they were working on The Hunger Games.
The Odyssey which follows Homer's other tragic Greek epic The Iliad, tells the story of Odysseus' adventures during his ten-year journey home following the Trojan War and the fall of Troy. It's main protagonist is the cunning Odysseus who details the dreadful adventures that befall him and his crew.His wife and his son, unaware that he is still alive has to endure an abundance of wannabe suitors that desire to take Odysseus' throne. The poem has already been a staple for modern films in countless times with the most recent take, a loose adaptation by the Coen Brothers.
In related news, "The Hunger Games" enchantment will still continue as the possibilties of a prequel and sequel are inevitable.
Lionsgate has been known to deliver
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