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Background with citation: 2004 - "David Benioff's Trojan Horse Screenplay Conquers Hollywood"

This film was a one-man attempt at modernizing the ancient epic while retaining the key setting and elements of the sword-and-sandal drama. According to actor David Goldsmith in the journal Creative Screenwriting, Benioff's adaptation of the Iliad is a "set-piece tragedy of sorts: part spectacle, part dysfunctional family drama".

Some have criticized screenwriter David Benioff for taking on too much material by covering the complete and lengthy chronology of the Trojan War, but he was aware of this challenge. He is quoted addressing this rather bluntly in an article by actor David Goldsmith in the journal Creative Screenwriting: "The script covers the Trojan War in its entirety, whereas The Iliad is only one fragment of it. I didn't want to have little titles saying, 'Flash forward nine years.' It would have made it more faithful to the source material, but it wouldn't have been effective for the movie. I always followed the route that I thought was better for the movie; if that meant that I was cheating on Homer then so be it."