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Feb 25, 2003
Sean was at the BAFTAs see some pics here
Feb 6, 2003
TROY
Sean has been offered and has accepted the part of Odysseus in Troy.
However they're still negotiating the contract, so it's still not a done deal.
Troy
Production is scheduled to start in April, 2003 at locations
in Morocco on a budget of $100+ million. The production will then move
to locations and sets in Malta and the United Kingdom in July and
August.
A couple of articles about Sean and Troy, from Comingsoon.net, Empire and
CHUD:
Coming Soon.net
Sean Bean Playing Odysseus in Troy? Tuesday, February 4, 2003 10:29 CST
Sean Bean, who couldn't resist the one ring in The Lord of the Rings: The
Fellowship of the Ring as Boromir, told The Jonathan Ross Show on BBC Radio
2 that he may next star in Warner Bros.' epic Troy. Here's the highlights
of the conversation...
"I may be starting this film called Troy, which is about the Trojan War..
The Greeks. That's going to be starting in April...It's classic, Brad Pitt
is playing Achilles and I may be playing Odysseus. It's quite a good story,
it's a Warner Bros story and a big budget film."
Empire Online
Ayup, 'Ere Comes Odysseus
05/02/2003
It's all unofficial, mind and not at all confirmed, but our favourite
northerner Sean Bean may be bringing a little bit of Yorkshire to Wolfgang
Petersen's Troy by playing the wily Greek hero Odysseus.
Speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show on BBC Radio 2, the gravel-voiced lad
let slip that he might be joining Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom in slightly
sunnier climes than his native Sheffield. "I may be starting this film
called Troy, which is about the Trojan War that's going to be starting in
April. Brad Pitt is playing Achilles and I may be playing Odysseus," Bean
revealed before rather unnecessarily adding about Homer's epic poem, "It's
classic and quite a good story - it's a Warner Bros story and a big budget
film."
If his comments are true, Bean has truly landed himself one covetable part.
For Odysseus is not only one of the most intelligent, cunning and
charismatic of the lot on the Greek side - the famous Trojan horse was his
idea - but he's the chap who gets the sequel too in the shape of Homer's
Odyssey.
Although Empire Online does harbour a few worries as to quite what accent
Bean may decide to use while he commands his Ithacan troops. He may have
mastered the archetypal British spy speak in Goldeneye but there was more
than faint hint of flat caps in his valiant attempt at the strange RP
accent all men in Middle Earth seem to speak in The Fellowship of the Ring.
So Sean Bean attempting a Grecian twang might be just too amusing for words..
Chud
BOROMIR DOES GREEK?
By Devin Faraci
Casting on the massive epic Troy, about the Trojan War, continues, and the
latest actor to look like he's a part of the production is Sean Bean, who
was so great as the doomed Boromir in The Fellowship of the Ring.
While appearing on some Limey talk show or other, Bean had this to say: "I
may be starting this film called Troy, which is about the Trojan War.. The
Greeks. That's going to be starting in April...It's classic, Brad Pitt is
playing Achilles and I may be playing Odysseus. It's quite a good story,
it's a Warner Bros story and a big budget film."
Anyone who knows their Greek myth knows that Odysseus is the character with
the franchise potential - the blind epic poet gave him his own spinoff, The
Odyssey, about his utter inability to follow a map.
Feb 2, 2003
Sean might be joining Orli in Troy
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