Jorge Rivera-Herrans’ audio reimagining of Homer’s Odyssey will now get the animated film treatment.
Academy Award-nominated producer Jerry Bruckheimer has partnered with Rivera-Herrans and Atlantic Music Group president/Grammy Award-winning producer Kevin Weaver to produce the film adaptation of Rivera-Herrans’ EPIC: The Musical. Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ Chad Oman will also produce.
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CAA will shortly begin shipping the project to studios and streaming services, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which broke the story. The project also reunites Weaver and Bruckheimer, who worked together on the Academy Award-nominated film F1.
Rivera-Herrans began writing the audio-only sung-through retelling of Homer’s ancient Greek poem The Odyssey in 2019 while attending the University of Notre Dame, where he switched majors from medicine to film, theater, television and music. He started documenting his process on social media in 2021, when he posted a segment of the song “Full Speed Ahead,” which went viral. The Ocean Saga, the first of the nine sagas, dropped in 2023, with new sagas releasing every few months. The final saga came out in December 2024. Rivera-Herrans, who played Odysseus, cast the other parts online, assembling an ensemble of 25 performers from around the world.
Eight of the sagas charted in the top three on Billboard’s Cast Albums chart, with four titles reaching No. 1. Following a late 2024 change by Billboard that shifted concept albums not from a theatrically staged show from the Cast Albums chart to the Compilation Albums chart, EPIC’s last two chapters both topped the latter tally.
Since its debut, EPIC has generated more than 4 billion global streams and over 7 billion short-form views.
In September, Rivera-Herrans’ music was made available through a limited-edition $350 nine-vinyl EP, holographic mega box.
