Hey, Western Civilization fans, are you ready to have your greatest story told through the millennia retuned for modern audiences?

Hey, everybody, I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott.

This is Right Angle, brought you by the members of Bill Whittle.com.

And, uh, gentlemen, I suppose you have heard something about Christopher Nolan's movie of The Odyssey.

I'm a huge Christopher Nolan fan, but this one is not looking good.

Let's just start with the casting.

You've got the doughy-faced Benny Safdi as Agamemnon.

That's, yeah.

Zendaya is playing Athena.

Well, that's good to see her get some work, I guess.

At last, poor woman.

Right.

Hamesh Patel as Erolicus.

Lepida Njongo as Helen of Troy. They've got hip-hop artist, Travis Scott,

as the bard. And apparently Nolan says this is because hip-hop is the modern equivalent

of the Greek oral tradition. I'm not sure I'm buying that. And this is the one that gets me.

Of course. Ellen or Elliott Page, depending on your point of view, as possibly, we're not exactly

sure yet, the ghost of Achilles. And this is one that gets me, a hundred and five pounds

pseudo-male. You know, if you have to go the diversity route in the Odyssey,

couldn't you just give Odysseus a gay sidekick like Stanford from Sex and the City or C3Po or something?

Well, okay.

Wait a minute.

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