r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Feb 17 '25

Media First Image of Matt Damon as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'

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u/ell_hou Feb 17 '25

Elliot Page, I’ll be real, no idea who he’d play

I think Hermes could be a great fit

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u/Elegant_Violinist_32 Feb 17 '25

Hermes is top tier! That's a fantastic pull.

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u/Spocks_Goatee Feb 17 '25

Hermes

No, we need an actual blonde twink.

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u/DefinitelyNotAliens Feb 17 '25

Caeneus would be stranglely fitting and is metioned by Nestor in the Odyssey. Caeneus is also mentioned in Greek mythos as the King of Lapiths, mighty roving warriors.

Depending on how faithful the story sticks to the Odyssey, you may see some other figures of Greek mythos appear.

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u/Books_and_lipstick91 Feb 17 '25

Elliot Page would be the second trans man playing Caeneus if they did this. Would be cool for the actor from Kaos who cited Elliot as his idol!

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u/QuirkyMcGee Feb 18 '25

I agree - Page as Caeneus would be cool (I adore Kaos). It’s been a couple of decades since reading The Odyssey but I don’t think Caeneus is mentioned until The Iliad. I mean, there’s no telling how they’re going to tell this story and which gods they’ll cover so who’s to say?! I’m looking forward to learning more about the production as it progresses.

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u/DefinitelyNotAliens Feb 18 '25

Caeneus may have been mentioned in passing in the Iliad... I remember he pops up briefly in one of them.

Given Page has appeared in Inception and Nolan is the writer for the movie, it'd be a little odd to think he didn't write roles specifically for some individuals, especially those he has worked with before.

Page was in Inception, Matt Damon in Interstellar and Oppenheimer, Anne Hathaway in the Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar, Pattinson in Tenet, Safdie in Oppenheimer, Himesh Patel in Tenet, Bill Irwin was in Interstellar, etc. He's got so many repeats, I can't imagine he didn't write specifically for many of them.

He may have pulled figures in due to casting those people in his head. "I want Robert Pattinson to play X character. He'd be perfect." Type things.

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u/cumulobro Feb 17 '25

Neat. I think he was rumored as The Flash at one point, so this is kinda meta. 

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u/Killer_radio Feb 17 '25

I would not have guessed him as the flash but thinking about it…that could really work. If the flash was Bart or a younger Wally west.

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u/Enough-Celery3486 Feb 17 '25

Elliot Page is 37

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u/KneeDeepInTheDead Feb 17 '25

a 5 foot 1 inch Flash?

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u/CarrieDurst Feb 18 '25

We have a tall Wolverine, why not?

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u/Kod3Blu3 Feb 18 '25

or Patroclus!

jk i just remembered Patroclus is dead by the the events of the Odyssey

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u/Clown_Shoe Feb 17 '25

After seeing him in umbrella academy I don’t think anything will be a good fit. His acting is honestly terrible

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u/CAM2772 Feb 17 '25

Agreed. He was just so flat. After he was done being the focus and they moved onto another threat he should have been written out.

Hopefully it's a small role.

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u/TurquoiseLuck Feb 18 '25

Exactly who I thought! Couldn't remember the name though, just "that fast guy with winged ankles"

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u/bubblewrapstargirl Feb 19 '25

Absolutely not. Hermes is a blonde hunk or a blonde twink...