You’d think by now I would have accepted that Hollywood just cannot make a movie about Greek mythology that’s at least one-quarter decent.

Looking at IM rants today to/from mythologiced about a movie that is coming out this year, apparently not.

The thing is a lot of changes these movies make are just unnecessary and out of the blue. Look at Immortals: the movie is about Theseus opposing a king of Crete, so why Phaedra and not Ariadne? Why this King Hyperion instead of King Minos? And that’s just barely scratching the surface with this one.

Yeah, I know that Greek myth has many versions of the same story and that the timelines are forever out of sync with what is reasonable. But this isn’t picking one variant of the story – this isn’t even Euripides with his AU fanfics, complete with author’s note at the front explaining how it’s an AU.

Why can’t there be something that isn’t just… utter crap?