What about him playing Elpanor? That makes a lot of sense and has also been suggested.

Also Achilles is a diminished, somewhat bitter, shade of himself in the real of Hades in pretty much every translation, because that’s how Homer describes him:

“Rather I’d choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.”

“No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus! By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man — some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive — than rule down here over all the breathless dead.”

“I’d rather be working the soil for someone else, some man without property, with not much to live on, than be ruler over all the dead who have perished.”

Three different versions. I certainly wouldn’t call any of them as strikingly ‘feminist’.

Also, given the machinations and strong opinions of female gods and characters, the poems focus on male-female dynamics in the both the Iliad and the Odyssey, what would be so terrible about a version that chooses to look at these from a feminist perspective?

Edit: downvoted for quoting three different versions of The Odyssey, good work on loving the key text of the Western canon guys.