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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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Well another movie I WILL NOT BE WATCHING, EVER.
get woke go broke, time for another boycott.
Hollywood died a long time ago. Who cares? Hollywoods is dead. I haven’t seen a single good movie made after 2005 and quit watching them generally.
I stick with movies made before 2000, often well before 2000. There are plenty I still have not seen.
I don’t know how many of these actually were done in Hollywood or with Hollywood people, but we liked:
Top Gun Maverick
A Great Awakening
Song Sung Blue
Nolan is using Emily Wilson’s feminist interpretation of Homer’s work.
What else did anyone expect.
Just another Block Burner from Hollywierd. Fine by me, I love when they burn all their money and influence up on these woke vanity projects.
Definitely not the first but calling it now, this will be another massive flop.
Youtubers who do movie reviews say that Nolan is trying for Oscars which have DEI requirements. They don’t care about the audience.
Since they have tried to suppress news of some of the cast, it seems they are trying to get people into theaters to spring a freak show on them.
Critical Drinker’s review will get more views than the movie.
Whoopi? LOL!!! I guess that chick from Snow White wasn't dark enough.
I hope people watch the reviews. I never watch movies anymore without knowing what’s in it. Movie makers can’t be trusted.
“Isn’t Ellen Page maybe five foot two? I cannot see her as playing Achilles.”
This.
“ it seems like a good bet.”
lol A good bet that she gets the job.
Certainly that will not bode well for this film, I’ll bet on that.
I read yesterday that “Elliot” is playing Hermes. Achilles most likely would appear in the Odyssey but only as a shade (ghost).
I read her Odyssey translation. Nothing really stood out to me as a "feminist" interpretation.
Not the “contemporary language” used to make the work more “accessible” to the great unwashed...?
In her own words...
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2018/01/16/how-emily-wilson-translated-the-odyssey/
I'm still waiting for the Nelson Mandela biopic starring Brendan Gleeson, and the Desmond Tutu biopic starring Jeremy Irons.
Unless it’s a flashback, or something at the beginning of the movie setting the stage for the return home. If Odysseus is returning from the Trojan War, they might include a snippet of it.
I vaguely recall that the TV miniseries did that.
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