Posted on 05/11/2026 7:01:53 PM PDT by Red Badger
Reports of transgender actor Elliot Page — formerly Ellen — playing Achilles in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, The Odyssey, have sparked fierce backlash. “You could have paid me to tank this movie and I wouldn’t have thought of this,” actor Kevin Sorbo reacted.
While Page’s role in Nolan’s retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey — set to debut in theaters on July 17 — has yet to be officially confirmed, the Juno star is known to be in the movie, according to a report by the video gaming and entertainment website IGN.
“The trailer might’ve given away who the actor is playing: Achilles, the tragic hero from The Iliad who Odysseus encounters in the Underworld as a ghost,” the outlet reported.
IGN added that “while this isn’t confirmed yet to be the character Page is playing, it seems like a good bet.”
“If Elliot Page is playing Achilles, this will be the biggest bomb of Christopher Nolan’s career. It’ll be meme’d to death before it ever comes out,” documentary filmmaker Robby Starbuck wrote in a Saturday X post, reacting to the news.
“You can’t go from Brad Pitt as Achilles to a confused woman and expect an audience to take it seriously,” Starbuck added.
Actor Kevin Sorbo, meanwhile, quipped, “You could have paid me to tank this movie and I wouldn’t have thought of this.”
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You could tell in “Juno” there was something seriously wrong with this woman.
Ellen Page, her fake ‘rasslin’ gimmick, and Regietheater. What did you expect when Hollyweird goes full Regietheater, the celebration of East Germany’s triumph over art?
This is not “Homer - The Odyssey” - it’s a WAFL’s TRANSLATION of “Homer - The Odyssey”.
So, I’ll skip it.
Yes the Egyptian government sued over this!
I’ve been told in the UK (probably true here too!) you can’t get funding for a movie\TV series if you don’t have roles for minorities (which now includes trannies!)
How about an all Asian cast remake of Zulu?
Is there truly “Spring Time for Hitler” tax financial reasoning here and you can make money if no one sees the film\TV series?
You would think at some point investors would want a return on their money. Not just make “points” with the artistic crowd!
Great idea. And instead of Richard Burton narrating the opening and closing scenes, it can have some H1B IT drone right off the boat from Mumbai providing the narration in a thick Hindi accent.
Holy moly, I didn’t know this. I just thought she was a he, and he was just short and scrawny...
https://time.com/6284143/elliot-page-memoir-pageboy-trans-identity/
Achilles is being played by a biological female?!
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