Pythagoras Gets Hollywood Treatment on Samos

Mention the name Pythagoras and many people immediately think of set squares and aging scholars. Few would consider the life of Pythagoras to be exciting enough to warrant a Hollywood movie, but they’d be wrong. Pythagoras’ life is shrouded in mystery and intrigue and it all began on the verdant island paradise of Samos.

John Malkovich, Gerard Butler, Penelope Cruz to star blockbuster to be filmed on Samos

As ancient Greece and mythology has become the recent trend in Hollywood, the new film about mathematician-philosopher Pythagoras comes as no exclusion. Beginning in September, they will be filming in Greece, and more specifically in Samos and Delphi. At the same time, filming will take place in Belgium and Luxembourg.