Brad Pitt set for ‘The Odyssey’

Brad Pitt is taking on the George Miller directed ‘The Odyssey’, but it wont be the ancient take on the movie, instead it will be a Sci-Fi take ala ‘Mad Max’. Here is the synopsis of ‘The Odyssey’

It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War.^[2] During this absence, his son Telemachus and wife Penelope must deal with a group of unruly suitors, called Proci, to compete for Penelope’s hand in marriage, since most have assumed that Odysseus has died.

This from Empire:

Don’t expect to see Pitt back in those fetching breastplates and leather skirts he wore in Troy – this is a futuristic, outer space  take on The Odyssey, which (for those of you who skipped classics) is the Greek epic of how Odysseus took ten years to get home from the Trojan War, thanks to assorted gods, witches, inclement weather and really bad traffic on the Mediterranean between Asia Minor and his home of Ithaca. There’s no word yet on what sort of space spin this Odyssey will be getting, but we’re hoping for something pretty much exactly  like this. It could also mark a welcome return to futuristic insanity for Mad Max director George Miller.

Troy was one of my favorite Brad Pitt flicks so this sounds like its going to be pretty badass, especially if its ‘Mad Max’ style.