A new film aims to adapt Marie Phillips bestselling novel Gods Behaving Badly, which "tells the story of the Greek Gods, alive and well and living in a brownstone in New York City, as they cross paths with a young couple, Kate and Neil." Okay, seems legit. With Neil Gaiman's American Gods heating up, we could see the interest in this sort of thing.
However, things get super interesting when you note a few of the casting choices …
Demeter — Phylicia Rashad
Persephone — Rosie Perez
Whoa, hold up — the goddess of the harvest, who presides over marriage and all things that feel like home … is Claire mickey-fickey Huxtable. Her daughter, the one abducted by her uncle Hades and forced to marry him, inventing winter in the process … is the woman who brought us the ice scene from Do The Right Thing …
Throw in some other head-turning casting choices — Sharon Stone as an aging Aphrodite, Oliver Platt as Apollo, Edie Falco as Artemis, John Turturro as the aforementioned Hades and (brace yourself) Christopher Walken as Zeus — and you've got something really … interesting.
[Source: Movieline via The Mary Sue]