Gilgamesh: Jon Bernthal
Enkidu: Jason Mamoa
Utnapishtim: Christopher Walken
Some more to flesh out here, but I think we got something going.
Edit: need to have a sub plot about some guy getting fucked over by a copper merchant and trying to get Gilgamesh to intervene on his behalf.
Our Age of Stone is eroding!
The flood scene will be ai generated and look like shit.
Not if Nolan is on the case. He’ll actually build a miniature Mesopotamian city and flood it!
Just once, I wanna see the scale model be way too tiny, so it just visibly looks like dumping a bucket of water onto your Lego bricks as a kid.
Watch the original Superman movie, he saves a miniature town from a tiny toy town. Still a great scene though and actually strangely made better by tiny town lol
What about old godzilla films with the model tanks and buldings?
Yes, exactly the vibe I want
I love gilgamesh and have actually used it and lots of Sumerian things in two of my books, one of which is done but unpublished. I also threw in a copper merchant complaining about bad copper.
Zendaya can play Shamhat and Ann(e) Hathaway can play Ishtar (that’s the power of love!) with Sean Bean as Shamash and Anthony Hopkins as Utnapishtim and Sacha Baron Cohen as the Bull of Heaven and ai-generated Tony Soprano as Urshanabi. Eyy, whadda I gotta do to get some stone things ova heeya?
It will also have accurate costumes, perfect for filming on location in Iraq in the summer, heavy wool skirts for dudes:
Gilgamesh is also not raw dogging Enkidu every day smh
Gilgamesh will be the third Oppenheimer. Suffering for the creation of… they will make something for him to suffer from the horrors of their creation.
He fucks syphilis into existence
Gonna get a new level of “unnecessary sex scenes” discourse when the movie opens with Enkidu having sex for a full week
it’s been thousands of years can’t you just leave it be?
