Storybook Plan

THEME:

The central focus in this three or four part arc story would be;
PART ONE: This part of the story would start with Paris seducing Helen of Sparta, follow the Trojans sailing back to Troy, the Greeks learning and planning the invasion of Troy, overall this part of the arc would end with a Greek victory on the beaches of Troy. 

PART TWO: We cover the first major battle that features the full strength and force of each army. The end result is a decisive Trojan victory that sends the Greek army into full retreat. Rather than have Hector kill Patroclus in the ensuing battle on the beaches there would be no third battle until the Myrmidons leave the beaches of Troy.

PART THREE: After the greatest Greek warriors leave the Trojans mount the final offensive that leaves the Greek army defeated in its entirety with no survivors. A complete reversal of what happened in Homer's Iliad of when Troy was sacked and the men, women, and children being slaughtered. 

Potential Part Four: A naval Trojan offensive against a weakened Greece that results in Troy controlling the Aegean.

Bibliography:

The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

Homer's The Iliad

Troy - 2004 film distributed by Warner Bros.

Stories:

Homer's Illiad, Kline version

Minoan Crete

Mycenaean Crete

Story Style:

Screenplay for a movie

Style of a book 

Topic Research

I've somewhat settled on telling a story relating to the Trojan War.

Classical
The War with Troy has been told through a variety of different mediums. I want to do a new version of the story where the Trojans don't have to flee to Italy but rather beat the Greeks at the Gates of Troy and launched a counter attack on the city states of Greece as a result of a petty new king. An entirely new story, no one wants to be told the same story twice (cc: Sony with Spider-Man and killing Uncle Ben twice, we wanted a new take, thank you Marvel Studios)

Original Source
Original source material as well as the original story is here. I can use a multitude of things here to be relevant to my own telling of the story. I want to be original so things such as characters and locations will be borrowed from here.

The Iliad of Homer
Samuel Butler's translation of the core story of the Trojan War.

Myths of Crete & Pre-Hellenic Europe
This source there is a trade deal between Crete and Troy. I can build something into an outline that would include Crete.

Trojan War

Topic Brainstorm, Project - Week 2

I've narrowed the topic down to:

Classical

The War with Troy has been told through a variety of different mediums. I want to do a new version of the story where the Trojans don't have to flee to Italy but rather beat the Greeks at the Gates of Troy and launched a counter attack on the city states of Greece as a result of a petty new king. An entirely new story, no one wants to be told the same story twice (cc: Sony with Spider-Man and killing Uncle Ben twice, we wanted a new take, thank you Marvel Studios)  

Mideast

Arash the Archer, something new for me, but I would like to take the story of the heroic archer and turn him into a villain that the Persians feared. The fear would ultimately become realized when Arash would overthrow the king to become an Emperor himself to rule tyrannically over the Persian people. 

 

British/Celtic

Robin Hood, steal from the rich, give to poor. This story of Robin Hood steals from the rich for himself before an army invades England where he'll have to make a choice of whether to stand with this fellow country men or be killed himself when there is no one left to steal from. Robin Hood is an icon and many children's movies have been made of him but rarely do the depictions show the struggle that he went through to get to where he was. 

European

Rumpelstilskin, the cunning deal maker that twists them. I want to retell his story from not a common source but rather the one depicted on TV with Once Upon A Time to my own liking since post Season 4 writing absolutely botched the story line. Basically retell the most cringe parts of the series that made them do a soft reboot that sunk the show to its grave. 

Rumple - OUAT