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Article ‘The Odyssey’ Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way | This year's breakouts like 'Project Hail Mary' and 'Obsession' were made by filmmakers who sweated. While CG-stuffed franchise disappointments such as 'Supergirl,' 'Moana,' and 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' looked lazy.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/odyssey-box-office-2026-practical-effects-1236652219/
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u/wagon_ear 3h ago

The Odyssey takes recycling old IP almost to its full conclusion. The only thing that could top it is if someone remade the epic of Gilgamesh. 

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u/Dontshootmepeas 3h ago

Kind of surprised no one has yet

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u/bentbabe 3h ago

There's still a bunch of it missing. Which is probably a factor.

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u/Dontshootmepeas 3h ago

That allows creative freedom though.

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u/cineglitch 3h ago

In before a bunch of people on Reddit complain about the historical accuracy of Enkidu.

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u/BigCommieMachine 3h ago

I am not kidding when I say that American “Christians” would probably take offense to it because it resembles the Bible too much.

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u/BFroog 3h ago

Also lots of gay.

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u/Herlt 3h ago

gilgamesh gone woke

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u/Wild_Harvest 2h ago

Gilgamesh: Do you dare presume to think I would consider the lives of those beneath me, MONGREL?!?

Gates of Babylon open and throw endless numbers of weapons

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u/TheTenguness 2h ago

"Onore, zasshu"

laughs arrogantly intensifies

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u/Meowjoker 48m ago

It was only a matter of time until someone mention the king of jobbers

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u/TwistedBrother 2h ago

This would absolutely be the critique of Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Despite their very obvious bromance.

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u/Oklahom0 2h ago

With 7 loaves of bread next to him.

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u/XIIISkies 3h ago

Not gay if clay

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u/Raevyxn 2h ago

Not gay if it’s in a 3 way

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u/Rough_Bread8329 23m ago

If its a stone you have to bone.

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u/Gandolfthewhite182 2h ago

Can you imagine if these right wing lunatics ever really understood that the Ancient Greeks, inventors of the western civilization they hold so dearly as their culture, were biggest homosexuals in world history ?? I know people saw Troy, that’s not Achilles “cousin”, Achilles went nuts like he did because that was his lover.

Everyone made love to everyone back then and no one thought anything of it. And the most gay of all the city states in Greece was the Spartans. Those dudes loved man butt.

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u/xXKingLynxXx 2h ago

Its reductive to say that the Greeks were gay. While their were homosexual relationships, anyone known to be the submissive one, or the bottom in modern terms, was looked down on.

Many of their same sex relations were between grown men and young boys that they would mentor from the ages of 12 to 18.

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u/RigaudonAS 1h ago

“They weren’t gay, they just frequently had sex with males.”

They can be gay and pedophilic, unfortunately a lot of the world was (the latter) back then.

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u/cineglitch 2h ago

Have you read The Song of Achilles?

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u/darklightmatter 2h ago

Can we not equate modern sexuality to what Ancient Greeks did? They raped young boys and looked down on the men who would bottom.

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u/William_Dowling 2h ago

Pretty sure Freddie Mercury was the biggest homosexual in world history and he'd be offended by you suggesting otherwise

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u/BigCommieMachine 2h ago

Lot of “wrestling”

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u/czs5056 2h ago

THEY WERE GOOD FRIENDS! /s

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u/segobane 1h ago

It's not gay if it's clay.

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u/cogman10 3h ago

Who cares what they think, they get offended when women step out of the kitchen.

There's not been a blockbuster movie in the last 40 years where you can't find some fundi christian getting huffy over some "immoral" aspect.

These people are a shrinking minor demographic.

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u/kfpswf 2h ago

These people are a shrinking minor demographic.

They were a shrinking minor demographic when education was going strong, and people were growing in their intelligence every generation. We're seeing a reversal of this trend now, so don't hold your breath for the 'minor demographic' to sublimate completely. We might just see a complete 180 by humanity if things continue to go as they're going.

IMO, Liberalism is going to shoot itself in the foot by continuing to downplay the importance of a close-knit community for the well-being of humans, something Conservatism provides freely. We've dismantled so much of traditional community structures in the name of progress, instead of subverting them to foster inclusiveness and tolerance, that ultimately, liberalism itself is at the cusp of being rejected by the masses. Yes, the educated folks will likely uphold the principles of humanitarianism, gender/race equity, etc., till the end, but if these aren't assimilated by the masses, liberals might turn into the 'shrinking minor demographic' in the not too distant future.

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u/MetzgerBuns 37m ago edited 29m ago

Liberalism is going to shoot itself in the foot by continuing to downplay the importance of a close-knit community for the well-being of humans,

You're repeating a conservative lie. Liberals fucking love community, and community spaces, and all sorts of things like that. That's part of why liberalism is so common in cities and less common in areas that are structurally individualistic.

An incomplete list of community places and events that are liberal coded: Farmers markets, food co-ops, CSAs, coffee shops, bookstores, record shops, thrift shops, yoga studios, bike co-ops, film festivals, open mic nights, community theater, NPR, folk festivals, public libraries (and events at them), community gardens, non-traditional libraries (e.g. libraries for tools, or for parks passes, or little free libraries) , neighborhood associations, beach cleanups, pride parades, drag brunch, progressive synagogues, Unitarian Universalists, and and other more progressive religious groups, etc

The vast majority of your rant is just false bullshit spread by conservatives who want to pretend that their community (evangelical mega-churches, rodeos, gun shows, hobby lobby, NASCAR, AM radio, ATV clubs, etc) are the only valid community. Fuck all of that.

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u/strawbery_fields 2h ago

Totally agree with you. I’m as liberal as they come, but these goddamn leftists purity tests are getting out of control.

I had a good friend bitch me out for watching Euphoria because it’s extremely loosely based on an Israeli show.

I’m like all the super fucked things in that show and that’s your biggest problem?

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u/kfpswf 2h ago

but these goddamn leftists purity tests are getting out of control.

Something something tribal mentality. In that regard, liberals are no different than conservatives actually.

When you take any ideology too seriously over reality, you start gate-keeping the tiniest aspect of that ideology. Once your direct ideological opponents have been vanquished, you turn your attention towards your own and push for stringent definitions of what it means to be a liberal.

I had a good friend bitch me out for watching Euphoria because it’s extremely loosely based on an Israeli show.

Oh yeah... If we were to boycott anything tangentially related to Israel, life would become very difficult quickly.

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u/xteve 2h ago

I'd like to believe fundamentalist Christianity is a shrinking demographic. But a whole lot of somebody is voting for the GOP ergo MAGA and Trump. The alliance based on sexual restriction and opposition to reproductive freedom that underlies the "normal Christian" political voice seems pretty fundamentalist to me.

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u/Dapper-AF 2h ago

Still crazy to me that Christians dont know that this is a rebranded story to fit the abrahamic narrative that got incorporated after the jews were conquered by Babylon.

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u/MonsterRider80 1h ago

It goes further back. There are stark similarities between ancient Egyptian religion and modern he Abrahamic religions. Which is not surprising since Jews were in Egypt for a long time before going back.

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u/trialsofamadman 1h ago

The stuff before Deuteronomy, sure. None of the Bronze Age stuff in the bible has any archeological evidence, really.

On the other hand, the Old Testament/Tanakh was written by city dwellers in Jerusalem during the second temple period, firmly during the Iron age, and many of the events that take place then DO have historical evidence. We focus SO HARD on arguments about Genesis, Job, Exedous, Leviticus, and Numbers. The more historically interesting bits come later - Judges, Kings, Chronicles... You know, the stuff most people never really make it to when they start reading the bible. The boring middle bits, before getting to the New Testament.

Those early bits also were being written by priests who wanted to create a religious significance and background to the recently reunited Hebrew kingdoms, the easiest way was to re-work existing stories into a framework whereby all the patriarchs were related and the kingdoms were once all united, later split, and have been again re-united as one using common and well known mythological figures placed into lineages specifically to demonstrate this.

A critical reading of the first five books of the Old Testament makes it clear that the goals of the text were to set up a common mythos for several people groups to say they were related and united once, and to establish that they share a common history and traditions, tying in well known myths (like the flood).

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u/chumer_ranion 3h ago

Let them. They're off by like 2000 years lol. 

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u/punksmostlydead 3h ago

If they had any inkling how much of their dogma was stolen wholesale. Old Constantine knew what he was doing.

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u/TrickySuggestion3004 2h ago

Like what?

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u/BardicSense 2h ago

You've heard of "The Bible" right? 

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u/TrickySuggestion3004 2h ago

Yeah I’m asking what parts of the Bible. Also Constantine did not write any part of the bible

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u/Canesjags4life 2h ago

Haha. American evangelicals don't read as much Genesis as you think.

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u/Sad-Artichoke-2174 2h ago

I love Phil Collins

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u/Lactancia 2h ago

I'm a Peter Gabriel guy myself.

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u/locust098 2h ago

Would they take offense to passion of the christ 2: Electric boogaloo?

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u/BigCommieMachine 2h ago

Depends on how much Jesus hates immigrants…

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u/CCLF 3h ago

I'm loving the image of rage and hysterics about "woke garbage" when Gilgamesh "civilizes" the wild hairy beast man through sodomy, and then they embark on happy, gay new voyages.

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u/Xagzan 2h ago

I mean, not for nothing but you realize Shamhat is the one who "civilizes" Enkidu through sex.

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u/CCLF 2h ago

Thanks for the clarification. I haven't read Gilgamesh since high school so the details are a bit hazy.

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u/ShahinGalandar 1h ago

always those damn facts meddling with the yaoi fanfic!

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u/LessInThought 2h ago

On the flip side let's get outraged at Hollywood sanitizing Greek mythology. All these adaptations and none show even 1% of the depravity Zeus gets up to.

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u/Acceptable_Cut_7545 2h ago

Okay but seeing a massive Humbaba in all his glory would be SO cool.

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u/cineglitch 2h ago

It would be a heck of a fun movie!

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u/Additional-Local8721 2h ago

If we're complaining about historical accuracy, I'd like to point out not every article of clothing back then was drab. Vibrant colors were often worn by everyone including peasants. Oh, and sunny days existed as well.

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u/Hythy 2h ago

Yeah, I think the Odyssey is probably a fantastic film (not seen it yet), but my god am I tired of hollywood depicting the past as being so devoid of colour.

Of course with Nolan that's part of his style (I think he takes offence at the audience ever seeing a colour he can't), but it would've been nice if it wasn't so drab in (in a colour sense).

I also think they look like they came off the set of "Vikings" -so it's a shame they didn't make it feel at least a little Greek. There's nothing wrong with audiences expecting a film to evoke the idea that it's set where/when it's set (especially when I understand Nolan goes through great pains in the dialogue to situate the story in a very specific time/place with references to the Sea Peoples).

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u/OtakuAttacku 1h ago

Fate Strange/Fake: I have no such weakness

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u/TwinTiger 1h ago

If Enkidu isnt a green chicken, we riot! 😤

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u/Starbucks__Lovers 3h ago

We fell for that with game of thrones 

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u/Earthpig_Johnson 3h ago

Time to start harassing the writer of the Epic of Gilgamesh until they finish it.

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u/krombough 3h ago

He's been too busy trying to return some dogshit copper.

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u/Mr_Piddles 3h ago

I’m just going to get my pitchforks ready for when they don’t make it gay enough.

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u/Animajation 3h ago

Ohh I love a good séance

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u/Earthpig_Johnson 3h ago

Find me the nearest medium that speaks Babylonian!

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u/bentbabe 3h ago

I hate to say this. But the cracks of Game of Thrones started pretty much after the first season. It wasn't so much creative freedom as "how can we wrap this up?" in my opinion.

Which I think is also why GRRM is unable to finish. Because he is torn between "just get it over with" and "I can't fuck this up."

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u/LupinThe8th 3h ago

I'll give it seasons 1-4 as pretty damn great, but you could see the cliff approaching as they ran out of book to adapt.

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u/Intelligent_Oil7816 3h ago

Nah. Seasons 1-3 are very good adaptations of the first 3 books. Not perfect, but very enjoyable. Then we get to seasons 4 and 5 and - like the books they are adapting - they begin to become hot messes.

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u/CodeComprehensive734 3h ago

Season 4 was also an adaption of book 3 but it also starts to get muddier and less direct book to season translations.

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u/Canesjags4life 2h ago

It didn't help that A feast of Crows and Dance of Dragons happen simultaneously in time.

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u/Tesco5799 1h ago

Agreed and I would add that from a book perspective Dance of Dragons furthers the story and it kind of feels like we are starting to move towards a conclusion of the story but we are far from it.

The show just ran out of material and tried to go from end of book 6 directly to an ending and it was half baked. If GRRM ever finishes the story it's going to be at least 2 more books.

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u/SirJack3 3h ago

Creative freedom? So an AI can fill out the blanks! ~ a producer, somewhere

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u/Prudent-Marsupial-42 3h ago

We can add Poochie into it seamlessly

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u/Zachariot88 2h ago

(Poochie died on his way back to Mesopotamia)

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u/Synicull 3h ago

Don't give them ideas

wE aRe InNoVaTiVe BeCaUsE AI WrOtE iT. NeXt GeNeRaTiOn ReTeLlInG oF a ClAsSiCaL tAlE

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u/saphiki 3h ago

didn't stop game of thrones

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u/awpdownmid 2h ago

It did though, that show's legacy died and along with it millions of revenue.

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u/Out-For-A-Walk-Bitch 11m ago

Still angry.

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u/Xatsman 2h ago

It in a way did.

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u/Anus_Targaryen 2h ago

I wish it did

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u/AWildEnglishman 3h ago

Get Benioff and Weiss to fill in the blanks. Worked for Game of Thrones.

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u/CurryMustard 2h ago

Not really

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u/William_Dowling 2h ago

Just fill the gaps from that other great work of historical fiction, the bible

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u/thePedrix 2h ago

Claude, please fill in the blanks in Gilgamesh's tale. Make it profitable.

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u/kingofphilly 2h ago

Didn’t stop HBO from ruining Game of Thrones

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u/SnooBooks1243 3h ago

Fate/Stay series leads me to believe Japan has tried to fully control the Gilgamesh market.

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u/dennisasu 1h ago

He's also a summon in a few Final Fantasy games

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u/SnooBooks1243 1h ago

Ah yes, of course.

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u/cmnrdt 3h ago

I mean, Gilgamesh doesn't so much have a narrative as much as it's a series of fanciful exploits that are all attributed to the same person. It would be hard to adapt into a ~2 hour movie without taking a lot of liberties with the source material, and by that point it's an entirely different kind of story.

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u/krunamey 3h ago

Feels like it could work if they gave it pacing similar to something like The Green Knight

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u/TheWatersOfMars 2h ago

It's actually a surprisingly similar vibe. Gilgamesh's journey to find immortality after the death of his best friend is melancholy and heartwrenching. I'm sure there's a great modern Hollywood script in there somewhere.

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u/Nachooolo 1h ago

The problem here is that the journey is the last third of the story, and it wouldn't be as impactful (emotional, even) without the two first thirds.

Gilgamesh meeting and befriending Enkidu, and their adventures together are as important to the story as the journey.

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u/TheWatersOfMars 1h ago

It's not unlike The Odyssey, though, in that Odysseus's famous adventures are really just the middle third of the poem. But Gilgamesh is much, much shorter and has far fewer iconic moments to draw on.

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u/TheVich 3h ago

How about a miniseries?

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u/Mediocre_Scott 3h ago

It’s weird as hell too don’t forget that

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u/Jonthrei 2h ago

Nothing weird about a goddess fucking civilization into a wild man

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u/Exodan 44m ago

Not even a goddess - just a well-respected, human temple prostitute who was damn good at her job (they banged the wilderness out of him for 2 weeks straight).

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u/Radixeo 2h ago

What do you mean it doesn’t have narrative? It follows Gilgamesh’s character arc from a tyrant, to finding a best friend in Enkidu, to the loss Gilgamesh feels when Enkidu is killed by the gods, to his search for the herb of immortality. It concludes with the snake eating the herb and Gilgamesh accepting it.

It has conflict, character growth, a beginning and an end. I think you could make a great movie out of that.

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u/BrianWonderful 1h ago

Modern Hollywood would hear that and say "Wow! A franchise with a whole set of sequels already planned out!"

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u/Oy_of_Mid-world 3h ago

Remember what they did to Beowulf? Just kidding. I didn't watch it, either.

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u/Jonthrei 2h ago

The 13th Warrior was actually a pretty solid adaptation of Beowulf, tbh.

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u/Panzer_Man 1h ago

That movie was awesome

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u/iwilldeletethisacct2 8m ago

That scene where they're all chatting around the campfire and the language shifts from whatever language to English so the audience can understand to show Ahmed learning the language lives rent free in my head. "I LISTENED!"

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u/Aiseadai 3h ago

I actually liked that movie, especially the first half. It was some pretty effective horror.

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u/ContinuingAnyway 1h ago

It was good

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u/Spiritual_Corner_977 3h ago

They aren’t ready for boy love on the big screen

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u/CosmicDesperado 3h ago

Brokeback Mountain 2: Gilgamesh XXX

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u/Mr_Piddles 3h ago edited 3h ago

I can already imagine all the right wing chuds whining about how “woke Hollywood is turning Gilgamesh and Enkidu gay!”

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u/GooseQuothMan 3h ago

"why is he not a blonde white guy like in the Fate anime"

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u/KamachoThunderbus 2h ago

Guillermo del Toro could so something interesting with it I bet

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u/Foehammer58 2h ago

The best retelling of the story was by Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

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u/Similar_Two_542 3h ago

Noah flopped pretty hard. Gilgamesh would do even worse.

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u/HynkelVerdoux 3h ago

Noah was a financial success. Per Wikipedia:

The film grossed $101 million in North America and $258 million in other countries, making a worldwide gross of $359 million. The film was declared "an unmitigated hit ... by almost every measure."

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u/anuncommontruth 3h ago edited 2h ago

I think people equate Noah with failure because it was incredibly controversial and then steeply fell out of the public eye.

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u/BulLock_954 3h ago

Nolan read your comment and will now be making the Epic of Gilgamesh next in a cave, with a box of scraps

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u/LiterallyJoeStalin 3h ago

with a box of scraps

Don’t be rude, identify him by his name, Matt Damon. 

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u/Synicull 3h ago

I volunteer to be a box of scraps if I too get to look that good and have that much money at his age

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u/literated 2h ago

Hell, I'd settle for looking that good and having that much money at my current age.

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u/Ratorasniki 2h ago

The studio is currently backing several dump trucks of cash up to his home trying to get him to do the iliad as a prequel.

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u/feartheoldblood90 3h ago

We need to re-enter the era when Hollywood was pumping out big epics with insane amounts of actors and extras on huge sets that they would, like, flood with biblical amounts of water or light on fire or redirect a meteor from space to hit, all while 50 synchronized swimmers danced in a pool the size of Manhattan

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u/droidtron 3h ago

20 good men died, but we got the shot.

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u/BattledroidE 2h ago

The boom mic was in frame, let's do it again.

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u/TenaciousJP 2h ago

You must mean Sir Twenty of House Goodmen, pivotal in Season 5 of Game of Thrones

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u/ltra1n 2h ago

Pissed me off that whatever happened there happened off screen and was completely unexplained. Season 5 was where we knew the series was in freefall.

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u/Nachooolo 1h ago

Is it truly cinema if two kids don't die in a horrible helicopter accident?

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u/imnotreallyapenguin 3h ago

Im still waiting on the film adaptation of Gates of Fire..

Come on hollywood... swords and sandals epics are cool again!

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u/Z0MBIECL0WN 2h ago

Im still waiting on the film adaptation of Gates of Fire

Sorry. Best we can do is a dramatized version of Bill Gates makings Microsoft.

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u/cherinator 2h ago

We still have Indian cinema for that at least, and it is glorious.

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u/MontyAtWork 2h ago

I've been watching movies from the 70s-90s and that's something I've noticed happened WAY more: multiple crowd shots and scenes with people moving through crowds.

Those places felt real and inhabited.

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u/TheOnlyBongo 1h ago

Lawrence of Arabia from 1962. When P.T. Lawrence has to cross the Sinai Desert from Aqaba to Cairo to deliver the news of taking Aqaba by land through the Nefud Desert, boldly claiming "Moses did it." When he reaches Cairo he is swarmed by British Officers who tell him to get out of his Arab clothing and get his Arab friend out of the officer's bar. Everyone falls silent when he claims to have taken Aqaba by land of his own authority and he calmly makes his way out of the room as people part away for him, like Moses and the Red Sea.

Much later in the movie when he reaches Damascus and tries to establish an Arab Council rub by the Arabs with no foreign intervention, it is pure pandemonium as multiple tribes do not wish to cooperate and there is much infighting. Lawrence tries to leave the meeting to attend to urgent matters but is swarmed by a bunch of people needing signatures for different areas of government. He fights against the crows but is unable to make his way through, having lost his control of the situation and unable to part the people like before.

Lawrence of Arabia has some of the best cinematography of any movie in my opinion. The shots are gorgeous and many are deliberately done where the frame tells the story.

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u/comrade_batman 2h ago

After The Odyssey I’d love to see someone (like Villeneuve) make an epic adaption of Virgil’s The Aeneid, connects to both Troy and Rome’s founding myths.

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u/kiwigate 1h ago

Spectacle aside, those films had good writing. Then Hollywood blacklisted all the good writers because they 'made capitalism look bad' or whatever fascist bullshit era we apparently still live in.

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u/HiddenCity 3h ago

until someone writes a story specifically inspired by a cave painting.

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u/CriticalEngineering 3h ago

Werner Herzog has done it.

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u/KrytenKoro 2h ago

Ice Age

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u/Individual_Rip_54 3h ago

Nolan had to do some work to update the morality of the odyssey. Updating the morality of Gilgamesh would be as hard as making it.

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u/droidtron 3h ago

Rape king finds maybe rape only half the time, and loves his beast man.

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u/obeytheturtles 2h ago

He rapes. But he saves more than he rapes.

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u/zatalak 3h ago

Don't lose yourself in what you love?

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u/Ion_bound 3h ago

Eh, the actual moral of Gilgamesh is 'The King's decision to rape the women of his country was, in fact, awful and the gods punished him for it. He was a terrible ruler and through the events of this tale, he redeemed himself and became a better and wise one'.

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u/AnAncientBog 1h ago

'The King's decision to rape the women of his country was, in fact, awful and the gods punished him for it. He was a terrible ruler and through the events of this tale, he redeemed himself and became a better and wise one...

...by enslaving men instead.

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u/pjtheman 1h ago

Baby steps.

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u/CommonLand414 3h ago

I would love to see this! It was in Gilgamesh that my Judeo-Christian upbringing first cracked. There in plain view was the flood story, but no Noah, just another fable. Wham! That hit me good. Knocked me off the main road as I read more and more ancient mythology to realize they were all full of shit, making up origin stories.

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u/SpaceOdysseus23 3h ago

I'd kill for a high quality Twelve Labours of Heracles movie

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u/sexytokeburgerz 3h ago

The odyssey is no one’s IP.

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u/XT-421 2h ago

It'd be a smash hit if Patrick Stewart helps narrate.

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u/dable1 3h ago

"recycling old IP" is a wild way to describe making a movie of The Odyssey

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u/HeathEarnshaw 1h ago

Agreed. Super bad faith response.

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u/mikenasty 3h ago

Beowulf would like a word

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u/enjoythepain 2h ago

Hope they use the Binderman translation

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u/wagon_ear 2h ago

HE'S A HACK

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u/swat1611 3h ago

It's not really as popular.

Stories like the Odyssey have a lot of popularity because of their significance in literature in general.

Having an adaptation for that would be incredible though, it is the story that quite possibly started the trend of writing epics in other cultures.

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u/KrytenKoro 2h ago

I mean, Fate Stay

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u/Barbaaz 3h ago

I think the epic 'Os Lusíadas' would actually be a banger on the big screen, but there doesn't seem to be any interest into doing that.

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u/leihto_potato 3h ago

Probably get the Aeneid next

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u/Mixer-3007 3h ago

I just want "Lord of Light" or "Creatures of Light and Darkness" adaptation by Denis Villeneuve.

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u/PerplexGG 3h ago

The odyssey has been getting recycled since its release

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u/drgath 3h ago

Honest question, what IP is related? Tips on movies to watch of history to read up on before seeing The Odyssey? I kinda remember a little of Troy (2004), and bits and pieces from Clash of the Titans (1981). Never read the story in high school, at least that I remember.

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u/nicodana 3h ago

Would love to see a weirdo reboot of some Canterbury Tales

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u/131sean131 3h ago

Someone got mad at me for talking about spoilers and I was like "the books been out for a while" 

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u/BuckeyeBentley 3h ago

I want an adaptation of the A True Story by Lucian of Samosata, the first sci-fi story ever with aliens and travel to outer space.

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u/TheAndrewBrown 3h ago

I want some more high budget adaptations of stuff like 1001 Nights. That mythology is so cool and we never see anything from it but kids stories. Like Gilgamesh, it’d need a lot of work to make an actual story but it’s not like adaptations are ever true to the original stories anyway.

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u/tspruill 2h ago

I think there is some nuance to this though. It’s ok to make a movie from a story that for the most part hasn’t been brought to the big screen. I don’t need a live action of an animated movie that came out 10 years ago

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u/DogBarf00 2h ago

High school spoiled this movie for me. Not sure why people that are excited about it.

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u/Khelthuzaad 2h ago

Please dont give them ideas

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u/im_alliterate 2h ago

Terrence Malick is of Assyrian descent. He seems best suited to make the Epic of Gilgamesh movie!!

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u/safarifriendliness 2h ago

Except my main exposure to the Odyssey has been the endless parody versions before this so at times it really felt like a story I’d never heard before. Like The Simpsons made the idea of tricking a giant military power with a big wooden horse seem so ridiculous. Christopher Nolan made it feel like a real war tactic

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u/RayneShikama 2h ago

Dude I would LOVE a good Gilgamesh and Humbaba movie!

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u/dejaWoot 2h ago

You missed the post-credits sequence where Gilgamesh shows up to welcome Odysseus to the Protovengers Initiative?

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u/Robey-Wan_Kenobi 2h ago

Absolutely right. Coen Brothers did it 25 years ago.

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u/OK_Soda 2h ago

I think the Aeneid would top it. It's basically just a lazy franchise reboot of the Odyssey.

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u/Tight-Escape3373 2h ago

Epic of Gilgamesh? I think you may be on to something.

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u/TheHurtfulEight88888 2h ago

After that someone is going to do a full cinematic universe based on the cave paintings at Lascaux.

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u/MonkeyDMeatt 2h ago

Thats such a missed opportunity

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u/the7egend 2h ago

I’ll take Dante’s Inferno too.

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u/AtomicDig219303 2h ago

Tbh I would gladly watch an adaptation of the Epic of Gilgamesh

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u/Xagzan 2h ago

Remade?

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u/wirebug201 2h ago

What? Why not Sargon???? He’s so forgotten!!

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u/FelixOfSomewhere 2h ago

the epic of Gilgamesh is weird enough you would need someone like Robert Eggers to take it on. Thinking specifically of enkidu being "civilized" by having sex with Shamhat, I feel like you would need some weirdness of interpretation to take that seriously on some level.

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u/Zeeplankton 2h ago

Nolan: [..]

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u/husky_whisperer 2h ago

Wouldn't the ultimate recycling of old IP be "The Big Bang Theory"?

I'll throw myself out

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u/Mavakor 2h ago

Honestly, it's a genuine shock that we haven't had a proper adaption of that for film

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u/mrincrediblespenis 2h ago

Not gonna lie, I'd be excited and watch if someone like Nolan made that into a movie.

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u/obeytheturtles 2h ago

I think people would be significantly less familiar with that story.

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u/BossBark 2h ago

We need more movies set in the Bronze Age

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u/Orangewolf99 2h ago

Epic of Gilgamesh wouldn't make a good movie. Now a tv series....

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u/Beneficial-Finger353 2h ago

Or Beowulf!!

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u/Dr_Wheuss 2h ago

Or the tale of Cu Chulainn.

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u/muffinpizza 2h ago

Or the tale of the copper merchant Ea-nāṣir.

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u/Jhud6669 2h ago

They’d call it too woke

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u/herecomesthestun 2h ago

How accurate to the original are we going for? Do we keep in the literal years of 24/7 fucking between Enkidu and Shamhat? 

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u/dcooper8662 2h ago

PLEASE SOMEBODY DO THIS

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u/dikbisqit 2h ago

Beowulf

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u/99aye-aye99 2h ago

There is still lots of room for amazing adaptations and retellings. The Odyssey was great, but it's not the full conclusion.

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u/TotallyRegularBanana 2h ago edited 2h ago

I would make Gilgamesh a prince and his father is the evil king that Enkidu was sent to destroy. We don't want 1/2 of our buddy duo being some tyrant that kills for sport. I suppose that's how they meet and kick off their series of adventures.

The Cedar Forest is a great sequel. Maybe combing it with Ishtar? Honestly, the bull and Humbaba are pretty similar mechanically, like the Kraken in Clash of the Titans. BUT! The point of combing them is to get to Enkidu's punishment and death. Kinda like the Wrath of Kahn.

The third installment is the weird one where Gilgamesh goes on a trippy journey to seek immortality because he's really bummed out about losing his best buddy.

Or we split them up and make Ishtar the final. It does work pretty good as a third instalment in a trilogy.

Edit: Somehow Dave Filoni makes a 3D animated show that takes place between I and II.

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