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Ayup, 'Ere Comes Odysseus Feb 5, 2003 It's all unofficial, mind and not at all confirmed, but our favourite northerner Sean Bean may be bringing a little bit of Yorkshire to Wolfgang Petersen's Troy by playing the wily Greek hero Odysseus. Speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show on BBC Radio 2, the gravel-voiced lad let slip that he might be joining Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom in slightly sunnier climes than his native Sheffield. "I may be starting this film called Troy, which is about the Trojan War that's going to be starting in April. Brad Pitt is playing Achilles and I may be playing Odysseus," Bean revealed before rather unnecessarily adding about Homer's epic poem, "It's classic and quite a good story - it's a Warner Bros story and a big budget film." If his comments are true, Bean has truly landed himself one covetable part. For Odysseus is not only one of the most intelligent, cunning and charismatic of the lot on the Greek side – the famous Trojan horse was his idea - but he's the chap who gets the sequel too in the shape of Homer's Odyssey. Although Empire Online does harbour a few worries as to quite what accent Bean may decide to use while he commands his Ithacan troops. He may have mastered the archetypal British spy speak in Goldeneye but there was more than faint hint of flat caps in his valiant attempt at the strange RP accent all men in Middle Earth seem to speak in The Fellowship of the Ring. So Sean Bean attempting a Grecian twang might be just too amusing for words. © Emap Consumer Media Limited 2002