THR recently reported that Bulgarian director, Javor Gadev, is set to helm the upcoming greek mythological film Theseus. Described as "a special effects-heavy take on the Greek myth of the minotaur monster and the hero who defeated it."
The script was written by Kira Madallo Sesay, the head of Kallipe Films, who will also produce the movie.
"Kalliope, whose credits include the upcoming Hansel and Gretel in 3D, another high-tech update of a classic tale, have assembled an impressive tech team for Theseus. Joseph C. Pepe, the lead character designer on James Cameron’s Avatar, will design the mythic monsters for Theseus while the film’s visual effects will be handled by veteran visual effects producer Korey Cauchon (Spider-Man 2, Sucker Punch)."
Theseus, in Greek mythology, hero of Athens; son of either King Aegeus or Poseidon.
At this time, the Athenians, who had been at war with King Minos of Crete, were forced by him to send every year seven youths and seven young women as a tribute to the Minotaur.
Theseus was numbered among those who were to be sent as the third tribute to the beast. But when he came to Crete, Minos’s daughter Ariadne fell in love with him, and having obtained the secret to the Labyrinth from its constructor Daedalus, she disclosed the way out to Theseus.
In the last part of the Labyrinth, Theseus found the Minotaur and killed him, and since he had been instructed by Ariadne, who had offered to help him if he would agree to carry her away to Athens and have her to wife, he found his way out.
They both fled from Crete, but on arriving to Naxos (one of the Cyclades islands) Theseus deserted her.
