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Circe Deserves a TV Adaptation — And Fans Are Already Casting It
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Madeline Miller's mythological masterpiece has fans and critics alike wondering why no studio has swooped in yet. According to Collider, Circe stands as the best fantasy novel of the last decade — and the case for a prestige TV adaptation is long overdue.
Why Circe Would Be Must-Watch Television
While fantasy adaptations have become the hottest commodity in Hollywood, Miller's retelling of the legendary witch-goddess of Greek mythology remains frustratingly unoptioned — at least publicly. The novel's intimate, character-driven structure is practically tailor-made for a limited series format: a singular, complex female protagonist across centuries of myth, gods behaving badly, and some of the most recognizable names in classical literature making appearances. Odysseus. Medea. The Minotaur. Scylla. This is prestige TV waiting to happen.
The comparison to Fourth Wing is telling. Rebecca Yarros's dragon-rider fantasy has already generated enormous adaptation buzz and a dedicated fancasting community. But Circe offers something richer for casting dreamers — a sprawling pantheon of roles, each with real dramatic weight, that would challenge and reward even the most celebrated actors working today.
What myCast Fans Are Already Saying
Here's the good news: the myCast community hasn't been sleeping on this one. The fan cast for Circe has already mapped out 20 roles, and the picks are genuinely inspired.
The most contested role so far is Scylla, where Lily-Rose Depp leads with 6 votes — a fascinating choice that leans into the character's cold, otherworldly menace. Alyssa Sutherland has earned 5 votes for Medea, which makes enormous sense given how commanding she was in The Boys. For Odysseus, fans have rallied behind Oscar Isaac with 4 votes — honestly, it's hard to argue with that. Isaac has the weathered intelligence and magnetic charisma the role demands, and after Moon Knight, we know he can carry a mythologically inflected story. Idris Elba has also pulled 4 votes for Helios, the sun god and Circe's father, a casting choice that would bring genuine gravitas to what could easily be an underwritten role.
Elsewhere in the cast, Rosamund Pike has 3 votes for Perse, Circe's vain and cruel mother — and if you've seen Pike play cold, calculating women with devastating precision, you already know this works. Even the wilder picks have a logic to them: Mark Hamill with 2 votes for King Minos is the kind of outside-the-box thinking that makes fancasting genuinely fun.
A second Circe fan cast is just getting started, with Bryan Cranston nominated for Daedalus — a role that, when you think about it for more than three seconds, is absolutely perfect. Cranston playing the tragic master craftsman opposite a fully realized Circe? That's a scene worth writing a pitch deck for.
For comparison, the Fourth Wing fan cast has generated 29 votes across 12 roles, with Taylor Zakhar Perez dominating the Xander vote at 13. It's a sign of how much appetite exists for fantasy fancasting — and Circe deserves that same energy directed its way.
The Casting Conversation We Should Be Having
The biggest gap in the current fan cast is the title role itself. Circe — the narrator, the heart, the character who carries every scene — has barely been touched in the existing stories, with only a placeholder vote logged so far. That's the conversation that needs to happen. This is one of the most demanding roles in any potential fantasy adaptation: a woman who moves from vulnerability to fury to wisdom across an immortal lifetime, who goes toe-to-toe with gods and monsters and wins on her own terms. The right casting choice here could define what kind of show this becomes.
With studios actively hunting for the next Game of Thrones or The Wheel of Time, Circe has every ingredient for a landmark adaptation. The fancasting community has a real opportunity to shape the conversation before Hollywood does.
Cast Your Dream Circe Right Now
Head over to the Circe fan cast on myCast, add your picks for the title role and the rest of the pantheon, and let's build the cast this story deserves — before some studio executive beats us to it.
