Movies Christopher Nolan's New Film (Revealed to Be THE ODYSSEY, post #30)

[JudoThrowFiasco]

love him or hate him (i personally tend to caution closer to the latter end of the spectrum), the dude simply doesn’t make flops. if Nolan is great at anything, it’s making his populist blockbusters feel like cinematic events.

I don't mean financial flop (although I'm assuming this will be a massive budget) but his first negative reviewed movie.

Money wise he's a a blue chip investment

 

[Busgosu]

Holland will be that pussy Paris and a great casting.

Zendaya is going be Helen of Troy and I don't think I'll be able to stop laughing.

Yeah, I don't think so. The Odyssey begins after the end of the Trojan war. Those characters belong to the Iliad (Helen actually is in the Odyssey but she plays a very minor role).

 

[Bornstarch]

The Odyssey is more about the Greek Gods scheming and fighting each other over Odysseus. They're a lot more hands-on this time around compared to The Illiad. A lot more mythical, exponentially more epic in scale.

Think "Clash of the Titans" x 100.

 

[revoltub]

I was confused at first, I thought Nolan was directing the Ralph Fiennes movie about the odyssey

 

[Morning Star]

I mean...thats a big swing post Oppenheimer. This may be his first flop

Guess you missed Tenet.

 

[Cole train]

Fire both and get bradd pitt or don fry

Don fry as odyssey and takayama as sidekick with dana white as villain

 

[Wilmer Digreux]

I have a hard time picturing what an odyssey movie with nolans style would even look like. They gonna do practical effect monsters?

 

[Starck]

Zendaya? Pass.

 

[Rozko]

Yeah, I don't think so. The Odyssey begins after the end of the Trojan war. Those characters belong to the Iliad (Helen actually is in the Odyssey but she plays a very minor role).

The Illiad ends with Achilles returning Hector's body and the burial of Hector. The Odyssey mentions the Trojan Horse and the fall of Troy as a back story. Nolan will cover that section because modern audiences are unread clowns.

 

[Bullitt68]

I'm predicting Nolan's penchant for crosscutting multiple timelines: Odysseus' journey home is timeline one, flashbacks to the war is timeline two, and what's going on at home with his wife and son is timeline three. Constant cutting back-and-forth until he finally returns home. Also in keeping with Nolan's themes of time, loss, trauma, regret. Odysseus will be sad about lost friends, he'll be pained at the separation from his wife and losing time with his son. Greek mythology is sort of out of left field for Nolan (although he did emphasize Prometheus in Oppenheimer) but I can see him making it fit in his cinematic universe. Still not wild about the casting, though. If he's going older Odysseus, then I'm assuming Damon is Odysseus and Hathaway is Penelope, but if he's going younger Odysseus, then it'll be Holland as Odysseus and Zendaya as Penelope. Kind of hoping the former, but we'll see.

The real issue is Nolan's never been big on violence. You don't see anything of the home invasion in Memento and the shooting is very tame in both Memento and Insomnia, the Batman films and Inception are extremely sanitary with PG-13 violence, Dunkirk is one of the tamest war movies in the modern era. Other than Bale losing his fingers in The Prestige, Nolan tends to shy away from or gloss over violence. I can't imagine him making this with Game of Thrones-style violence and bloody, dismembering/disemboweling swordplay. But it'd be fucking AWESOME if Nolan went metal and turned in an R-rated epic

 

[HenryFlower]

Guess you missed Tenet.

Tenet has a 70% on RT/69 on Metacritic

 

[Morning Star]

Tenet has a 70% on RT/69 on Metacritic

I get you like simping for mediocre movies but Tenet is Chris Nolans lowest ranked film as a director on RT, it's even lower than Zack Snyder's Justice League which he produced lmao. The most lasting memory have of it was the shitty sound mixing which made it nearly to impossible to follow in the theaters due most of the dialog being inaudible. It also completely bombed domestically making $58 Million and by all accounts lost money.

 

[HenryFlower]

I get you like simping for mediocre movies

sounds like a struck a nerve.

but Tenet is Chris Nolans lowest ranked film as a director on RT,

completely irrelevant.

it's even lower than Zack Snyder's Justice League which he produced lmao.

you must be high because Justice League has a 39%

The most lasting memory have of it was the shitty sound mixing which made it nearly to impossible to follow in the theaters due most of the dialog being inaudible. It also completely bombed domestically making $58 Million and by all accounts lost money.

it was released during covid & Warner Brothers completely fumbled its release, prompting Nolan to divorce WB for Universal.

 

[Thepaintbucket]

I'm sorry but none of these actors are a good fit for this movie except for maybe Charlize Theron. Matt Damon as Odysseus??? Cmon man. This is going to be some weird ass new age PG-13 kids version

Tom Holland should stick to making another 50 Spider-Man movies for his slave master Sony pictures

 

[Busgosu]

The Illiad ends with Achilles returning Hector's body and the burial of Hector. The Odyssey mentions the Trojan Horse and the fall of Troy as a back story. Nolan will cover that section because modern audiences are unread clowns.

It is only briefly mentioned in the Odyssey but it's really more fleshed out in the Aeneid.

 

[Fedorgasm]

Poor choice. There is no way to improve on the GOAT:

That movie was awesome. Should've gotten more credit.

 

[Peteyandjia]

It goes mostly unnoticed, & under the radar, but for the last buncha years, like decade-plus, Christopher Nolan is actually, secretly, quietly... a hack