Spec script sale: “Odysseus”

Warner Bros. wins a bidding war with Paramount for “Odysseus” from writer Ann Peacock:

The story centers on the legendary hero Odysseus, famed king of Ithaca, who returns to his island after 20 years of fighting the Trojan Wars, only to find his kingdom under the brutal occupation of an invading force. Odysseus single-handedly defeats every last man and takes back his wife, his son and his kingdom.

[Producer] Nunnari came up with the story and during the course of a general meeting with Liebesman told him the idea. Liebesman leaped at it, and brought in Peacock, co-wrote the director’s indie Sundance thriller “The Killing Room.” She wrote the script on spec.

Nunnari and Liebesman will get a “story by” credit.

The intent is to make not a sleepy swords-and-sandals epic but a bloody relentless revenge movie, something akin to “300” meets “Taken.”

300 meets Taken. Talk about personal stakes!

Peacock is best known for writing “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” The scribe is repped by CAA and Principato Young.

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