Posted on 04/17/2026 1:10:25 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Christopher Nolan made his way to Las Vegas to talk up “The Odyssey,” his historical drama based on Homer’s Greek epic...
“Why ‘The Odyssey?’ ‘The Odyssey’ is a story that has fascinated generation after generation for 3,000 years,” Nolan mused. “It’s not a story. It’s the story.”
Nolan treated exhibitors to an extended look at “The Odyssey,” which opened with Damon’s Odysseus, shirtless on the beach with a burly beard. He’s been gone a long time and admits to Calypso (Charlize Theron) that he “can’t remember anything before Troy.”
Most of the footage revolved around “the story of the horse” — the famous Trojan horse attack, which the Greeks used as cover to enter the city of Troy at the end of the war. As the massive wooden figure washes up on the beach, thousands of men have to pull the Trojan horse out of the water and onto the sand before they can wheel it into the city...
Later, there are shots of Odysseus urging his soldiers to keep rowing through a storm, and then slinging arrows as they launch their full-scale attack in the dark of night. The footage ended with a quick shot of Odysseus and his soldiers as they face the man-eating cyclops Polyphemus; the massive brute picks up a man in his hand before the screen cuts to black. He’s one of many mythical beings — Cyclops, sirens and Circe among them — who Odysseus will encounter as he ventures to reunite with his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) and son Telemachus (Tom Holland).
Nolan described a treacherous filming process, which brought them all over the world as they shot across Morocco, Greece, Italy, Iceland and Scotland.
“This has been an absolute nightmare to film — but in all the right ways...We had an amazing time.”
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The Trojans should have listened to Laocoon.
I hope it’s good. Nolan’s best movies are marvelous. But some of them are either incomprehensible - or made for much smarter people than me.
In every fiction there is some truth.
Odysseus existed more than as the invention
of a poet.
I liked his work in “Dunkirk”. Very original, but I admit, I kept getting confused until I could figure it out.
“Memento” blew my mind a little bit...it was the most bizarre way to tell a story I had ever seen, but once I figured it out, I very much admired that originality as well. But I have never been able to recommend that movie to other people.
I’ve never seen a film directed by Nolan although I consider myself somewhat of a film buff as I have at least thirty semester hours in cinema.
I was so over Batman movies when this guy took over directing them and frankly 21st century cinema doesn’t have that much appeal to me.
Love mythology but I’ll probably pass on this one.
I did think Troy was pretty well done.
They had a 1973 Sinbad movie on THC the other night. I started watching and paused it and just watched the commercials:)
Cant say the same for the Hans Zimmerman score which was just lifted wholesale (or is that TEMU) from the Enigma Variations.
You’ve confused her with Zendaya.
‘The Dark Knight” is well worth it.
Heath Ledger’s Joker is a one of a kind.
“Batman Begins” before it is a good one.
Ignore “Batman Rises”. Too long. Too convoluted.
Lupita Nyong’o plays Athena.
She’s just a girl.
Yup you’re right. Recent articles claim she’s cast as Helen of Troy.
"Helen of Troy":
Hard pass. Not spending my money on this epic of White erasure.
A very pretty girl BUT casting like that ruins my suspension of disbelief.
Thanks, Tell It Right!
Black Helen of Troy, so no its woke.
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