Troy: Access Hollywood indicates Claire Forlani, Emilio Estevez, and Michael Clarke Duncan are in talks to join the ancient epic according to Access Hollywood.

Directed byWolfgang PetersenWriting credits (in alphabetical order)  David Benioff Cast (in credits order)  Brad Pitt/AchillesEric Bana/HectorOrlando Bloom/Prince Paris of TroyRose Byrne/Briseisrest of cast listed alphabeticallySean Bean/OdysseusSaffron Burrows/AndromaqueJulie Christie/ThetisBrian Cox/AgamennonBrendan Gleeson/MenelasPeter O'Toole/PriamProduced byWinston Azzopardi....  co-producer  Gail Katz....  producer  Wolfgang Petersen....  producer  Diana Rathbun....  producer  Colin Wilson (II)....  producer   Casting byEdward Mercieca Lucinda Syson  Production Design byNigel Phelps  Art Direction byAndy Nicholson Adam O'Neill  Production ManagementSteve Harding....  unit production manager   Second Unit Director or Assistant DirectorGerry Gavigan....  first assistant director   Art DepartmentAnthony Caron-Delion....  assistant art director  Kevin Phipps....  supervising art director   Visual Effects byAlex Bicknell....  visual effects producer: Warners  Nikki Penny....  visual effects producer: Warners   Other crewRob Harris (I)....  unit publicist  Janet Hirshenson....  casting consultant: USA  Jane Jenkins....  casting consultant: USA  Berenice Percival....  casting assistant  Lucinda Syson....  casting: UK  Michelle Lewitt....  casting associate: USA (uncredited

The BBC talked to scribe David Benioff about the Greek epic he penned for the big screen and was asked why the Gods of Olympus never figured into this story: "'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not The Iliad alone. The Iliad begins...halfway through my script. The Iliad ends...a good twenty pages before my script ends. This is a massive story that we're trying to tell in two-and-a-half hours. The narrative is crammed with some of literature's most intriguing characters: Achilles, Hector, Helen, Paris, Priam, Odysseus, Agamemnon, Patroclus, etc. All these characters have to emerge on screen as fully realized human beings. The battle scenes have to mirror the epic confrontations Homer described. The journey of the thousand ships from Greece to Troy has to be depicted. Everything takes times, and we're not making a twelve-hour miniseries. We're not making a trilogy of three-hour movies. There is no such thing as a faithful adaptation. Even when I adapted my own (very slim, very un-epic) novel, I had to eliminate one of my favorite characters, because there simply wasn't enough time to tell his story along with everyone else's. Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts. In the case of "Troy", I chose to tell the human story: the story of Helen's love for Paris, of Achilles' epic duel with Hector, of the fatal trap that Odysseus sprung on the Trojans. The gods do not appear on screen but their presence is everywhere and their influence profound".

C'est vrai que les peplum (un peplum - des pepla ?? ) ça fait toujours peur au niveau du kitsch !!! Mais après tout, c'est bien le pari réussi de Gladiator... Alors pourquoi pas l'Odyssée ?

A quand un bon film sur les Vikings !!!!