In 2024, a team of researchers from the University of Thessaly led by Andreas Flouris recreated sets of the 3,500-year-old Dendra armor (the oldest full set of Mycenaean armour ever found) and recruited 13 marines from the Hellenic Armed Forces to test it out in an 11-hour Bronze Age combat simulation.
But Damon looks suitably grizzled, as befits the cunning Ithacan king that went AWOL after masterminding the Trojan Horse stunt, but ancient history buffs everywhere are now appalled by something else – his armour.
At 54 years old, Damon is the perfect age to play the Greek hero, who was canonically pushing middle age by the time the Trojan War broke out.
Odysseus's nifty headgear gets a shout out in the original poem, where Meriones bestows upon him an heirloom helmet made of felt and leather adorned with boars tusks.
Due for a July 2026 release date, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Elliot Page, Anne Hathaway and Charlize Theron have all been attached to the project too, but we still don’t know who they’ll be playing.
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