Troy Story

What is it about the Ancient World that has filmmakers all in a tizzy this year? We have Michael Mann and Erik Jendresen fighting tooth and claw to get their version of an epic Spartan battle to the big screen, then we heard that Vin Diesel was in the loop to play the Carthaginian general Hannibal and now Wolfgang Petersen is getting in on the act. Petersen, who had been down to put the superhero spat Batman vs Superman into production first, has chosen instead to direct and produce Troy, based on the epic story The Iliad by Homer. For those of you not well versed in the classics, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War which