"The Return", a film adaptation of The Odyssey, to start filming in Corfu and Peloponnese in spring

Filming of the The Return will take place in Italy and Greece with the two stars Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes coming to Corfu and the Peloponnese in spring.

Binoche and Fiennes will be reuniting 25 years after The English Patient in this film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey.

The Return retells the epic tale written by Homer with the Phaeacian Island playing a key role. It is directed by Italian-British Uberto Pasolini and the script written by John Colley and Edward Bond.

Synopsis

The official synopsis of the film is as follows:

After 20 years away, Odysseus (Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognisable. The King has finally returned home but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war.

His beloved wife Penelope (Binoche) is now a prisoner in her own home, hounded by her many ambitious suitors to choose a new husband, a new king.

Their son Telemachus (Charlie Plummer), who has grown up fatherless, is facing death at the hands of the suitors who see him as an obstacle in their relentless pursuit of Penelope and the kingdom. Odysseus has changed too.

Scarred by his experience of war, he is no longer the mighty warrior his people remember. But he is forced to face his past in order to rediscover the strength needed to save his family and win back his lost love.


Taken from an article in EN-The Magazine, July 2022