Hunger Games team regroup for Homer’s The Odyssey

Lionsgate has regrouped “Hunger Games” team – Francis Lawrence, Peter Craig, and Ninja Jacobson to bring to the screen Homer’s “The Odyssey”. On the fast track, the movie will be directed by Lawrence, written by Craig, and produced by Jacobson.

The film, which is merely the latest in a long line of films based on the poem, will go into production next year.

Here’s the description of the book via Amazon :

The most eloquent translation of Homer’s epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus and his arduous journey home after the Trojan War