Any piece of literature having 10+ film adaptations is a lot.
It's more than The Iliad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_based_on_the_Iliad
The Odyssey trailer dropped
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Any piece of literature having 10+ film adaptations is a lot.
It's more than The Iliad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_based_on_the_Iliad
Ok, but I doubt anyone has even heard of most of those unless they are into Italian cinema or japanese-french anime. Maybe someone has seen the 90s TV series, which looks like typical network tv slop. I will admit The Return looks interesting. I remember thinking the trailer looked good when I saw it last year, but I didn't realize it was out already. I still stand by what I said that there isn't much to fight about on that list, but we'll see if anyone wants to take you and your O Brother Where Art Thou take to the mat over one of those.
My point was less Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? versus that list of obscure entries.
It was more Oh Brother versus a big-budget film with some of the biggest names in the business both in front of and behind the camera (and maybe the biggest active director right now with Nolan).
I love Nolan, but I'm pretty sure I'm still gonna prefer George Clooney and Tim Blake Nelson's misadventures across depression-era Mississippi compared to the grand historical epic from Nolan.
I'd even argue the former is much truer to the tone of the source material, too.
I've always felt The Odyssey should be read almost as a comedy.
I'm gonna see it, but hey maybe now we have a competition.
I think their point is that while there are technically 10+ adaptations, look at the production quality of 90% of them. They aren't big Hollywood productions...at all. Like at ALL.
Pretty much. A little ironic he brings up the Illiad because at least that has Troy. Not a great movie IMO, but still a big budget blockbuster movie.
Since we are on the subject, have you seen The Return? I do think that one looks interesting.
The one with Armand Assante was an NBC mini-series that was solid. I think I might even own a copy on VHS somewhere in a closet. Certainly not big budget movie good, but before the proliferation of reality TV and the rise of prestige cable shows being everywhere, the big networks used to sink a lot more money into these types of mini-series.
