It could be an amateur production or a big collab between some of the creators that have been accompanying Epic. Anything more than that will be dependent on mainstream visibility and getting Epic's name out to those with the power and money to attempt a bigger production.

Animated movie is most likely to come first, but will probably be a little while since that takes time.

I think (feel free to correct me if I’m wrong) that if it did turn into a movie he wanted it to be in an animated style, like The Prince or Egypt :)

I personally think that would be really cool, but I haven’t heard about anything being in the works. However, with the Ithaca saga out now and how popular the musical has become, that could certainly change!

I discovered it a couple months ago scrolling through Spotify, and am rediscovering it now! I think Jorge Rivera-Herrans is doing an amazing job so far. The writing can definitely be weaker in some parts, but songs like Ruthlessness and Wouldn't You Like are very well-written and captivating numbers. I can't wait to hear the full thing! And also his performance as Odysseus is absolutely wonderful, I mean his voice is a whole other conversation in itself like wow.

I did a musical with one of the members on the show years ago! I am excited for them, they are so talented!

I do enjoy the musical as a whole (so far), however I can tell this is the first musical this guy has written. the lyrics are a bit clunky in certain spaces.

We have been listening to this non stop for months. It has quickly become my absolute favorite musical

I discovered this a while back but only got obsessed right before the release of the Thunder Saga. I got to watch the livestream and oh my gosh, it was such an amazing experience 😭 Jorge deserves all the credit he gets for his work, it really is amazing. I love EPIC so much! 

I’m not a player, I’m a puppeteer.

No I don’t play, I puppeteer.

Pretty much that entire song is cringe. There are some good ones though, for sure.

I have a student who has been having lunch in my room for weeks after she discovered the graphic novel of Odysseus and has memorized this epic - so coool! She has shared with me all her insights, lol. We are scheduled to start this unit next after we finish R&J.

Man, this makes me miss teaching The Odyssey. Easily one of my favorite works to go over with freshman.

Cool, thanks. Working on THE ODYSSEY also.

I think it's a great resource, but also a great way of discussing differences in ethics. Basically any set of standards I've seen talks about the differences in a text and it's adaptations with this as a basis. Different moral codes will create differences in the text (like Patroclus being just a cousin in Troy because ew gays)

I pair it with O Brother, Where Art Thou? to do a comparison.

I thought you meant the Blue Sky movie & was very confused.

I forgot he made that musical when I saw his name lol 😂😂😂

I’ve heard something mentioned about Jorge thinking about a circus like performance with more acrobatic capabilities. I would absolutely want to see live performances

I’m someone who actually works in theatre, and I would say to the people who don’t think it could work in reality, I disagree! Yes, there would absolutely be artistic liberties taken with some more fantastical elements, but theatre has always been very creative with such things and I really think with the right group of designers and creatives, it could be an absolutely gorgeous and entertaining show.

Honestly, I think there should be multiple adaptions. I want to see an animated movie, a theatre production, everything I can get! I adore this show.

Absolutely!! I love to think things through, I’ve told several people I work with that one of the only ways I would ever return to stage management would be if it was the only way I could work on Epic I would LOVE the chance to make this work onstage and run it every night, especially as an A1

I’m not personally against the idea of a stage play version of it. I just personally think it would translate better as an animated musical, or even just a live musical movie. But if it’s done right? It would be spectacular to see on stage. I wouldn’t envy whoever got Odysseus part though. That’s over 2 hours of almost non stop songs

There needs to be an Ithaca subplot happening in the background. It'll give more love to the characters of Penelope and Telemachus, as well as make the suitors feel like a much more looming threat, all while giving the Ody actor a chance to sit down and drink some fucking water, lmao.

Tbh I was so happy that was a question in the last episode I recently got into it it is amazing.

I absolutely love this musical

I've been listening to Epic for about a month now.
Man I love the whole work. But, HOW EPIC IS THE ENDING OF RUTHLESSNESS!?!?!
How do you even come up with such an epic melody? daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.
It makes me feel invincible. <3 <3

God, Just a Man is so good. I really enjoyed There Are Other Ways and of course Ruthlessness is just… chilling in the best way possible.

I’ve been looking forward to Thunder Bringer ever since we got the first teaser for it and god the Zeus actor is phenomenal. I was looking forward to Let Me Be Your Light, since it’s the first song I ever heard from Epic, but I’m holding out hope for the Underworld Saga that we’ll get a reunion with Polites and it’ll be one of the unnamed songs 21 and 22.

I'm completely obsessed with it

Yes, that's the plan. For now we have a lot of fan animatics while we wait for the next step. Also, there are the official animatics commisioned by Jorge, but is not of the whole musical.

Epic of Gilgamesh. There hasn’t been any movies or whatever made off of it, and it’s the oldest myth in the world. And I feel like it would translate well to a musical.

If not that, then a musical off of the story of Sun Wukong in Journey to the West

I want an Iliad musical because I want a cute little theme for Achilles and Patroclus that gets deployed to devastating effect after Patroclus dies <3

You wan Jorge to do a mythology. I want Jorge to make a space opera. we are not the same.

I really wanna see Journey to the West :3

The Illiad is an obvious choice, but I’d specifically love to see him focus on Hector. Most retellings focus on Achilles, but Hector has always been a deeply sympathetic and tragic figure to me; the REAL hero of The Illiad, and I’d love to see him get the narrative treatment he deserves. Especially because of the way Jorge chose to begin Epic, with the murder of Hector’s son being the first of many moral crises we watch Odysseus grapple with, I think Jorge could really get us all in the feels by chronicling Hector’s futile struggles to protect his home, his kingdom, and his family.

Red Introduced me and my sister to the Odyssey before we ran across Epic the musical, but I'm only planning on watching the Nolan film cause of Epic😅

I think you're grossly overestimating the audience of Epic. Nolan is coming off of Oppenheimer; he (and the marketing machine he works with) can do so much more than Mr Jalapeño. Even if Epic weren't around, I guarantee all of its fans would hear about the movie regardless

I like thinking that my subcultures have significant cultural sway and are more well known than I'd thought, but after my 20s I've learned that, for lack of a better term, the ocean of normies is incredibly vast.

JRH has 3m Spotify listeners; Ludwig Gorannsson has 3.8m. Hans Zimmer has 13m.

The opposite is more likely.

It will not increase viewership numbers of the movie by any noticeable amount. We are talking about Christopher Nolan here bffr

I don't think a lot. I gained attraction to mythology from Horrible Histories Season 10 Episode 8 - Gory Greek Myths, then Overly Sarcastic Productions, then school, then EPIC.