Many directors have been fertilized by works of the Antiquity and they have all expressed their individual opinions on the screen. Wolfgang Petersen also shared his viewpoint about Homer’s influence on various forms of art, and he thought that “if there is something like a tree of storytelling, on which each book, each film, is a tiny leaf, then Homer is its trunk.”2 He is among those who have directed an own interpretation of Homer’s epic in his movie entitled Troy but his movie focuses on placing the epic on the grounds of reality instead of retelling the myth from a different perspective. There are such elements in the original epic which might have caused a headache to the filmmaker. The Iliad is quite complex, which may be alien for the modern viewers historically, culturally, religiously and socially. The audience is less and less familiar with its plot and characters than the ancient audiences. It might be the reason why Petersen has altered on his method of introducing the epic. In the spirit of this, this paper aims at supporting the fact that Petersen’s Troy is rather an account of possible historical facts of the Trojan War in a Hollywood coating through the examples of individual mythical characters that are Petersen’s targets for reinterpretation.