That Christopher Nolan is one of the most important directors today is not a topic for discussion. The simple fact that The Odyssey was one of the most followed projects when we didn’t even know what the hell the British filmmaker was up to, highlights how he benefited from the well-deserved success of Oppenheimer.
Nolan’s works have generated excitement for decades, ever since he embarked on his Batman trilogy to Images from Warner Bros. in the mid-2000s. In 2005, Nolan released Batman beginsand initiated an important change for the genre. It is clear that accepting this project made him reject another one that until now has been a thorn in his side.
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When Memento and Insomnia became hits and put Christopher Nolan on the map, Warner wanted to put him in charge of a sword-and-sandals epic like the ones that worked so well at the time thanks to the effect Gladiator: Troy.
But the director also had a new version of Batman on the table in which he could unleash his imagination to levels he thought Troy wouldn’t allow, so he opted for the DC universe, leaving the epic film in the hands of Wolfgang Petersen.
The Odyssey It is essentially the continuation of Troy
Troy It was a huge box office success, with US$497.4 million grossed in 2004, although critics really liked the adaptation of The Iliad and its changes in relation to the work in which Homer narrated the 10-year siege of trojan war.
Curiously, The Odysseybased on Homer’s epic poem of the same name, it is the story immediately after the Iliad and tells the 10 years it took Odysseus return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. In this sense, Christopher Nolan is filming, in his own way, the sequel to the film he was unable to direct to take over as Batman.
Sometimes Hollywood has funny twists. The Odyssey has brought together a spectacular cast that promises to be one of the biggest attractions of the summer: Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Lupita Nyong’o, Jon Bernthal, Ben Safdie, John Leguizamo and Elliot Pagebetween others.
Will it be the July 17, 2026 when The Odyssey arrives in cinemas around the world, with special emphasis on showing in cinemas IMAXwhere it sold almost all the tickets it released in pre-sale a year after its debut.