A new big screen take on Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ is on the way and Warner Bros has selected Russian director Fedor Bondarchuk to direct the much-anticipated film, according to a Deadline article.

The large-scale film is based on Homer’s poem The Odyssey, about the Greek king who returns after a decade away fighting the Trojan War.

The film will be a large-scale epic, Deadline reveals, as the Russian director’s work has been getting more and more ambitious. Bondarchuk, The son of Oscar-winning helmer Sergey Bondarchuk, is an actor, producer and on-air host who last fall directed Stalingrad, a touching WWII film about Russian soldiers who hold off the Nazis and adopt a young woman and keep her safe during an increasingly hostile campaign.

The actor who will play the great hero in this “Odysseus” remains unknown, as the casting has yet to be announced.

It should be noted that in 2004, Warner Bros. adapted Homer’s The Iliad with German director Wolfang Petersen at the helm. In that film Sean Bean played Odysseus.

There have been many adaptations of “The Odyssey” throughout the years, including 1955’s Ulysses, starring Kirk Douglas, and a 1997 Francis Ford Coppola-produced telefilm version, starring Armand Assante in the lead.