03/09/2018
"“She said, ‘I’ve got to do this with my kids somehow, what can we do? We have to tell the most epic story ever,'” recalled JQ. “I said, ‘Well, the most epic story ever is The Odyssey. Let’s place it in Chicago and let’s set teenagers as the main characters, the heroes.”
Odysseus became “Ody” and female, performed by 17-year-old poet and aspiring filmmaker, Chloé Johnson, a senior at Lindblom Math and Science Academy.
Some concepts move with surprising ease from ancient Greece to contemporary Chicago. Odysseus’s crew becomes Ody’s, well, crew."
Some concepts move with surprising ease from ancient Greece to contemporary Chicago. Odysseus's crew becomes Ody's, well, crew.