It is still the oldest surviving Epic, a blockbuster if you like, even though it had several remakes by Akkadians and others.
edit: btw, I wish even a fraction of the current high-budget superhero movies had as good of a plot as Gilgamesh
edit: btw, I wish even a fraction of the current high-budget superhero movies had as good of a plot as Gilgamesh
While we're at it, we'd probably need to rewrite Enkidu's story, too, because the idea of a Sacred Prostitute sanitizing a wildman through several days and nights of continuous sex is sure to rile some puritan feathers.
Fate/Zero may be available on netflix but remember its an M-rated anime about modern era secret society of mages summoning legendary heroes to fight to the death, with last team standing getting their wish fulfilled. Expect goofy characters, humour, dark plots and graphic violence.
But he's there to be a villain, threaten the heroes, almost rape one of the heroes, kill some people, and eventually be killed by one of the good guys.
He's certainly not there as a protagonist.
The eponymous Gilgamesh of this one is actually split into 10 relatively forgettable characters, and the head researcher of their faction is called Enkidu or something like that. And their faction wants to wipe out most of the human race in some kind of mystical extinction event, to give rise to a superior humanity. It's a relatively common motive for the bad guys in Japanese media, I recall hearing the big bad gesticulate wildly about doing the same thing when I shelled out enough 100 yen coins with a buddy to clear the story of the "House of the Dead" on an arcade machine.
Wait what, not the king of Uruk? That is just blasphemy.
In another timeline after demons killed most humans Urik was refortified and given the name "Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia". And in that timeline they seem to sometimes call Gilgamesh King of Babylonia after they renamed the country.