ODYSSEUS Series in the Works With STRANGER THINGS Exec Showrunning & HALO Director On Board
Odysseus, a new series from Independent European-U.S. TV, is in the works in the background of glowing reviews for Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster movie The Odyssey.
Tanweer, the Greek distributor of Nolan’s film, is producing the new and unrelated TV series out of Athens, with Karl Gajdusek, an EP on the first season of Stranger Things, on board as showrunner and producer.
The pilot was written by Sean Finegan, Scott Windhauser, Noah Lang, and Blake Hoss. Roel Reiné, who has previously worked on historical dramas including Washington and Black Sails, as well as Paramount+’s Halo and Wu Assassins for Netflix, is set to direct.
The take is described as “visceral, and muscular – the real Bronze Age world of blood, ships, betrayal, and characters trying to survive the era that inspired Homer’s epic. The emphasis on real history lets the story collide with the wider convulsions of the age leading up to the Bronze Age collapse breaking the known world apart into legend”.
In Greek mythology, Odysseus is the legendary king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey. Renowned for his intellectual brilliance and guile, he is most famous for his “homecoming”, which took him ten eventful years after the decade-long Trojan War.
After developing the drama for a few years, the team is aiming to shoot early next year on location in Greece and Armenia and is hoping it can spawn an “expanded series universe”.
via: Deadline