r/Nolan

He seriously only discussed the material being based on blackened bronze daggers.

That explains the colour only Nolan! Not the freaking Batman/Marvel scifi armor shape, design, everything else!!!

At least just admit that you fcked it up with the costume design in this movie.

Most likely because you didn't want to make it race specific, ie. GREEK!!!

Respect the region, culture and source material!!!

Cast people that look like ancient Greeks!!!

The armor doesn't look anything like armor from Homer's time. You fired your historical consultant remember?

How about you tell people that in your interviews and be honest about it!!!

Dammmmmm youuuuu Nolannnnnnn!!!!!!

You had the budget to make this incredible! But instead you've made the cringiest modern, broad, woke interpretation ever!!!!

How about you sit down with Mel Gibson and let him teach you how to make a historical/historical fantasy movie.

Uncle Mel will show you how it's done.

Where are all the East Asian actors in this production?

You're all so concerned with black and white that you forgot yellow exists too.

What is it with affirmative action being so racially biased towards black people when they're overrepresented for their population demographic in both the US and the UK.

Whereas the East Asian demographic are extremely under-represented in film and tv in the US and UK.

You need to spread the word that race isn't black and white! It's yellow too!

It's the dishonesty.

Just come out and say it's affirmative action, black actor's union/guild pressure on film studios, and or reparations that is behind the casting of Lupita and Zendaya in The Odyssey.

Just admit it.

Stop coming up with such disingenuous reasons.

Because if it was about diversity then East Asians would have prominent speaking roles too.

But they don't.

So just admit this is all just about black affirmative action/reparations.

Coming clean is better.

We’ve all seen the trailer. 121 million views in a day. Matt Damon, Zendaya, 70mm IMAX—it looks like a technical miracle. But while everyone is hyped for the spectacle, I went back and ran the projector on the 1997 Armand Assante miniseries.

Nolan is promising "tactile realism," but there’s a weight to the 1997 version that CGI can't touch. The way Assante reaches for his dead mother in the Underworld, or how Jim Henson’s Creature Shop handled the Cyclops—it felt heavy.

I put together a breakdown of why the 1997 version is actually the "blueprint" Nolan has to beat if he wants this to be more than just an action movie. If you think Matt Damon is a "safe" choice, you might want to see what Assante did with the role first.

Here is the entire screenplay for the upcoming epic/action movie from Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey buy from here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-odyssey-christopher-nolan/1150064812?ean=9780571403387
Here you can buy the script, but you will get it after the movie is out😅

Huge Christopher Nolan fan here, but I’ve never read (or really learned) the story of The Odyssey.

I’m debating whether I should:
- go into Nolan’s movie completely blind, or
- learn the basic story beforehand to better appreciate the adaptation.

For those familiar with both Nolan and Homer’s story, do you think knowing the plot/themes ahead of time will improve the experience, or reduce some of the wonder/discovery?

Also, if you do recommend learning the story first, what’s the best spoiler-light summary/video/article to use? The “EPIC: The Musical” has been highly recommended to me, but I’m worried it may go too in-depth before the film.

Of note, I’ve got a pretty low spoiler threshold - I don’t even like to watch trailers of things I know I’m going to see so I don’t get potentially spoiled.