I don't know how I missed this until now but there's a rumor that zipper tits Ellen Page is going to be Achilles in the upcoming "Odyssey" movie. So the supposed greatest warrior ever is going to be a 5' 1" woman who is probably under 125 lbs.
I don't know if this more tragic than Meryl Streep being rumored to be Aslan in the new Narnias
Maybe it's just difficult moving on from sciency movies. I bet his first script involved Odysseus using hydromagneto propulsion to travel and slaying monsters through temporal combat with the Algorithm.