Ayup, ‘Ere Comes Odysseus

It's all unofficial, mind and not at all confirmed, but our favourite northerner Sean Bean may be bringing a little bit of Yorkshire to Wolfgang Petersen's Troy by playing the wily Greek hero Odysseus. Speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show on BBC Radio 2, the gravel-voiced lad let slip that he might be joining Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom in slightly sunnier climes than his native Sheffield. "I may be starting this film called Troy, which is about the Trojan War that's going to be starting in April. Brad Pitt is playing Achilles and I may be playing Odysseus," Bean revealed before rather unnecessarily adding about Homer's epic poem, "It's classic and quite a good story - it's a Warner Bros story and a big budget film." If his comments are true, Bean has truly landed himself one covetable part. For Odysseus is not only one of the most intelligent, cunning and charismatic of the lot on the Greek side