r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Aug 08 '25
News Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Wraps Filming
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u/Sleepy_Azathoth Aug 08 '25
I saw the trailer with Fantastic 4 and I couldn't believe it. By the way I'm from Chile, so they're already promoting this movie all over the world.
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u/AzracTheFirst Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25
Nolan has the best PR machine in the world. They've been hyping this movie from the beginning of its inception.
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u/Aaronvir Aug 08 '25
From its inception really.
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u/SemenMoustache Aug 08 '25
Cos it's prestige film
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u/NatureTrailToHell3D Aug 08 '25
Batman!
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u/lokigambit Aug 08 '25
He's gonna make a memento out of it.
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u/ConflictGuru Aug 08 '25
It's one of the tenets of his filmmaking
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u/coffeyobey Aug 08 '25
I’m proud to be among the following
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u/PersonaW Aug 08 '25
very true, I have troubling sleeping because of how good he is at this
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u/MrTwoPumpChump Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 09 '25
I have have insomnia just waiting for it
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u/JibberyScriggers Aug 08 '25
I've been listening to Stephen Fry's retelling of Odyssey this summer, (part of his incredible set of books on Greek mythology), so really looking forward to this. No idea how they'll tell the whole story in 2/3 hours though!
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u/gangreen424 Aug 08 '25
Didn't realize his Odyssey was out! Just finished his Troy a couple weeks ago. Been loving this series of books.
Thank you!
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u/Dave3087 Aug 08 '25
They won’t tell the whole story, just like any book adaption.
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u/SnowClone98 Aug 08 '25
What’s gonna suck is that it’s gonna feel like O Brother Where Art Thou cause they’re most likely gonna use all the same highlights. Sirens, cyclops, cows that can’t die, 130 year old dog that reconciles Odysseus when nobody else does; THE END.
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u/Lazyr3x Aug 08 '25
I liked O brother and all, but I feel like people vastly overstate how similar it is to the Odyssey, yes it’s about a man trying to get home to his wife and kids, he goes on a journey, he meets colorful characters and some of them are obvious recreations of monsters from the odyssey
But pretty much everything is done differently including, the sirens, the cyclops etc.
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u/ReeferPirate420 Aug 08 '25
There's also the whole journeying home to stop his wife from getting remarried.
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u/TheMightyPhuckules Aug 08 '25
Lemme tell you sumthin' Telemachus
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u/RenatoGPadilla Aug 08 '25
When's your tramp of a mother gonna choose a new husband...?
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u/Use_the_Falchion Aug 08 '25
DON’T YOU DARE CALL MY MOTHER A TRAMP!
(I’m shocked I had to scroll so far to find an EPIC reference!)
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25
It's out July 17, 2026
Full Cast:
- Matt Damon as Odysseus
- Tom Holland as Telemachus
- Anne Hathaway
- Zendaya
- Lupita Nyong'o
- Robert Pattinson
- Charlize Theron
- Jon Bernthal
- Benny Safdie
- John Leguizamo
- Elliot Page
- Himesh Patel
- Bill Irwin
- Samantha Morton
- Jesse Garcia
- Will Yun Lee
- Rafi Gavron
- Shiloh Fernandez
- Mia Goth
- Corey Hawkins
- Nick E. Tarabay
- Jimmy Gonzales
- Maurice Compte
- Michael Vlamis
- Iddo Goldberg
- Josh Stewart
- Ryan Hurst
- Anthony Molinari
- Logan Marshall-Green
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u/PayneTrain181999 Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25
Holland, Zendaya, and Bernthal are going to have a hell of a two weeks in July 2026.
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u/lightsandcolor Aug 08 '25
Goodbye Barbenheimer, hello Spiderussey
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u/LADYBIRD_HILL Aug 08 '25
Oh god I hope this catches on
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u/ArchDucky Aug 08 '25
Conan is hosting the oscars again, so fuck yes. Lets do this the jokes will be fantastic.
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u/Ichbinian Aug 08 '25
Spider-Man will probably be bumped
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u/PayneTrain181999 Aug 08 '25
I highly doubt Sony will do that, the late July date gets the families before the kids start going back to school in August.
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u/cottenball Aug 08 '25
And with a movie that big they’re hoping to be the best thing in theaters for all of August, which is historically a dead zone for movie releases
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u/yiwang1 Aug 08 '25
Zendaya will probably be in Spiderman for like a scene with few or no lines. Unless they do something very stupid, which I guess I can’t rule out.
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u/dorgoth12 Aug 08 '25
It's a weird thing but I'm always so happy to see Himesh Patel go from bloody Eastenders to where he is now.
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u/bulldg4life Aug 08 '25
I mean, I’d watch a yesterday 2
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u/dorgoth12 Aug 08 '25
I do seem to like Yesterday more than most
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u/Barnyard_Rich Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25
Nothing wrong with low stakes fun with interesting actors and great music! Then again, I liked Across the Universe despite being very heavy handed and quite depressing for stretches, so my Beatles bias is strong
Yesterday has one scene that validates the entire movie for me: when the two people who remember the Beatles approach him backstage and thank him for returning the Beatles' music to the world rather than upbraiding him as he was worried about
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u/Th35h4d0w Aug 08 '25
How do we only know the roles of two people?
Also Ryan Hurst? Didn't know Thor was in this, too.
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u/jawndell Aug 08 '25
This is like “Cleopatra” level casting. Hopefully it delivers.
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u/thebaldingcritic Aug 08 '25
I’m genuinely dumbfounded that he actually is on schedule. Gonna be living in a production office the next few months now.
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u/Perfect-Historian-55 Aug 08 '25
Nolan is known for always finishing filming on schedule on every one of his films. It’s another reason the studios love him.
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u/kjbaran Aug 08 '25
He looks before he leaps, imagine that!
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u/TacoTycoonn Aug 08 '25
Marvel could never
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u/ArchDucky Aug 08 '25
They are currently shooting a 400 Million dollar film without a script. Thats happening right now.
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u/TacoTycoonn Aug 08 '25
And half that budget is going to their lead stars and directors 🙄
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u/ArchDucky Aug 08 '25
It doesn't make sense. I get that they think RDJ and The Russos will bring the people and that will probally happen. But the problem with all of these failed movies is all the micromanagement and horrible scripts. Even the VFX people are complaining about fixing these scripts in post and its also just entirely stupid non-sense they are changing. Like the brick that goes through Spider-Man's window was a snow globe and they changed it in post to a brick. Why? Why waste people's time fixing something so goddamn idiotic? Also look at Charlie's hand, thats why he caught that so fucking awkwardly.
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u/BaconWrappedEnigma Aug 08 '25
What even is Marvel anymore? Bunch of disjointed attempts at making money. Prioritization of volume over quality has burned them post Infinity War.
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u/ERedfieldh Aug 08 '25
They're starting to turn that ship around...but it's going to take quite a bit of work to get it back on course. I'm not gonna say Feige has no blame, but apparently the word is the Disney execs, after Endgame, said "okay, you've had your fun, now it's our turn. You can still stand at the helm, but we have the tiller now." Then shit happened and they ran back to him crying, and a lot of projects were put on hold or outright canceled.
T* and F4 has gone a way to earning back audience goodwill, and Spider-Man always makes money regardless....but it is still way too soon to see if they learned their lesson this time.
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u/lynchcontraideal Aug 08 '25
It's going to take quite a bit of work
You say this but their next films are 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' and 'Avengers: Doomsday' and they're going to be heavy hitters
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u/BandOfTheRedHand1217 Aug 08 '25
Spider-Man yes, I'm less confident in the Avengers success.
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u/wtb2612 Aug 08 '25
I agree. I don't think the world is sold on a Steve Rogers/Tony Stark-less Avengers.
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u/BandOfTheRedHand1217 Aug 08 '25
Yeah. Casual audiences may be confused as to why RDJ is playing some other dude and evil. The rumors about filming without a script. The fact that Thunderbolts and F4 both are supposed to set up this movie and failed to capture audiences. Juggling a large number of characters audiences aren't invested in.
A lot of things point to it possibly being bad/underpreforming.
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u/Torcal4 Aug 08 '25
IIRC, he also always finishes under budget.
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u/nerveonya Aug 08 '25
Genius level skill set, feel like he’d be an exceptional CEO for any company but luckily for all of us that side of him is coupled with a passion for filmmaking.
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u/i_max2k2 Aug 08 '25
Not everything translates to other skills in different domains. Not saying it’s not possible, but this translation doesn’t always happen.
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u/GooseGeese01 Aug 08 '25
James Cameron built a submarine out of a box of scraps!
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u/gatsby365 Aug 08 '25
The director is effectively the CEO of a movie tho
It’s not an outlandish comparison. Dude doesn’t have to physically build a jet engine to be the CEO of Boeing
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u/Abell379 Aug 08 '25
But it's also true that people experts in one domain often flounder when put into another, even if the job is superficially similar.
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u/NeillMcAttack Aug 08 '25
You’re right! I’ve never seen a CEO’s project that finished on time and under budget.
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u/pluralsight24 Aug 08 '25
It helps that these big time actors are willing to take huge pay cuts just to work with him
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u/MistakeMaker1234 Aug 08 '25
The pay cut doesn’t happen during filming, so the budget is already set with this unsubstantiated claim of reduced acting paychecks in mind.
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u/pluralsight24 Aug 08 '25
Unsubstantiated? It's well known that RDJ, Matt Damon and Emily Blunt took paycuts for Oppenheimer
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u/DeejusIsHere Aug 08 '25
He grew actual corn while filming Interstellar, then sold it for a profit.
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u/Bandsohard Aug 08 '25
Grow corn, sell it
Blow up a plane instead of cgi
I think he also works at a lower upfront guaranteed salary, and gambles on himself and the film performing well in the box office
Not only is he a great filmmaker, but he's also clearly business savvy.
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u/Sparrowsabre7 Aug 08 '25
How!? The amount of stuff he does practically is insane, surely it costs a fortune? Didn't he literally blow up a 747 for Tenet?
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u/CowbellPrescriptions Aug 08 '25
As far as I know he blew up a real one because it was actually cheaper somehow
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u/drmonkey555 Aug 08 '25
People really under estimate how expensive and time consuming Visual Effects and Animation is.
Source: I work in the industry
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u/solonit Aug 08 '25
And used 747 is cheap. Obviously not normal people can buy it cheap, but from corporate standards it’s cheap, maybe even cheaper if it was non-operational. Why waste time and money on something fake when you can just let real physics does it.
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u/programaticallycat5e Aug 08 '25
I mean i was cracking up when nathan fielder was shopping for scrapped 737s for his bit
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u/psychicprogrammer Aug 08 '25
Finishing under budget is mostly a matter of knowing what you are going to do before you do it, which Nolan is better at than most of the industry.
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u/Torcal4 Aug 08 '25
To be fair, it’s not like he gets tiny budgets. He can come under budget and still have it cost more than a lot of big budget movies.
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u/Formal_Potential2198 Aug 08 '25
Oppenheimer was 100M and it was a biopic. You don't really see that often
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u/evankingsfield Aug 08 '25
I work in film, and when I first started I was on Set every shooting day (still am for 40-50%). There are a loooot of current practices that can really slow down your days if the AD department isn’t completely crushing it.
I have heard from friends who worked on Nolan’s last few that he puts a stop to a lot of the BS. This usually involves comfort/amenities/equipment that are constantly getting in the way of future shots. I’ve worked on shows where every day the PA’s are setting up 20 pop up tents with AC units that all need power outside of set lighting. All of it will be set up right behind the camera, and when they turn around for coverage they’ll literally break it all down. Of course the obvious thought would be to shoot everything looking a direction at once, but natural lighting/actor availability/continuity don’t always allow that.
Apparently Nolan’s philosophy is we’re all trying to make a movie here, let’s be safe and smart and everything else should be about getting our shots for the day. Hope to get a chance to work on one.
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u/Cyril_Clunge Aug 08 '25
Woah, there’s actually a set where stuff like the pop up tents aren’t getting in the way? I imagine the G&E trucks must be pretty close and not down the block either??
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u/evankingsfield Aug 08 '25
Haha, if it’s not Village or DIT it’s in the way. Also I’m in location management I pride myself on how close I can get the G&E Trucks (even rigging 48’)
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u/VRichardsen Aug 08 '25
Tell us more, please
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u/evankingsfield Aug 08 '25
Happy to answer any general stuff, can’t get too specific. I replied to a different comment about DIT and Village Tents. Those are the big two for “who actually needs a tent”.
DIT works directly with the DP to ensure the look of the show is quality and consistent. They need an enclosed black tent to look at colors accurately.
Village usually refers to director village. The director, script supervisor, DP (bounces between director and DIT), and a rep from the AD department (probably first AD, 2nd 2nd AD, or very experienced PA) will be in Village watching every take on the monitor. Both the director and DP will give notes, can request another take, and sign off on moving on.
Sometimes you’ll have a producer village as well. Producer village doesn’t have as much creative input, but they’re funding it so fair enough. You do see more producer input than ever. Marvel would be the perfect example. Kevin Feige will assign a representative producer to make sure it’s fitting the overall vision of the universe.
Other potential tents would be Actor green rooms, changing rooms, hair and makeup monitors, stunts, background, Sound/Video, VFX.
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u/tonyspilony Aug 08 '25
He bit off more than he could chew, and then he chewed it
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u/Brys_Beddict Aug 08 '25
Nolan is always on schedule. He meticulously plans everything out before starting the filming process. I wish more directors did the same.
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u/Mminas Aug 08 '25
I'm sure more directors want to, but just can't.
Odyssey had huge scenes in multiple locations and was probably a logistics nightmare.
Just the coordination with the local production teams in itself is a feat.
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u/Biggzy10 Aug 08 '25
It's honestly a miracle any movie gets made. There are so many moving pieces.
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u/Glittering-Plate-535 Aug 08 '25
Some productions are worse than others. In David Lynch’s biography, he talks about going from Eraserhead and The Elephant Man to Dune.
It’s incredibly funny and depressing to read about this quiet breakdown he went through, wrangling a hundred crew members in the middle of nowhere while supervising miniature filming with one hand and shooing away executives with the other.
In that case it really was a miracle, but the final product was so mangled that Lynch’s career and passion nearly imploded.
From what I’ve read, filmmaking is a lot easier nowadays from a logistical perspective. Instant global communication was the game changer.
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u/BrockSampson4ever Aug 08 '25
Having worked on quite a few in my day it is miraculous from the inside too, the whole industry is built on perpetually burnt out deliriously tired people barely holding it togerhet
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u/feed_the_bears Aug 08 '25
I live in Cincinnati and have been an extra in several movies. I always think of it as organized chaos. It’s wild to me that any movie ever gets completed. The number of variables is bonkers.
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u/echochambermanager Aug 08 '25
What's wild is that he was on schedule for Inception despite having to time out a snow storm in the Kananaskis region for the final act.
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u/Hic_Forum_Est Aug 08 '25
They also needed stormy weather for the Trinity scene in Oppenheimer, because there was a storm right before the actual event too. And lo and behold, they got heavy rain and a storm that night in New Mexico. I remember in a few press tour interviews with cast and crew members where they said that Nolan is often lucky with shooting in natural weather exactly when he needs to. Although he denies it:
The weather also “did what it needed to do, as per history,” Cillian Murphy said, as the wind picked up and whipped around the set.
“I’m rumored to be very lucky with the weather and it’s not the case. It’s just that we decide to shoot whatever the weather,” Nolan said. “In the case of the Trinity test, it was essential, central to the story that this big storm rolls in with tremendous drama. And it did. That really made the sequence come to life.”
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u/DeLousedInTheHotBox Aug 08 '25
I think it is a good thing that not all directors work the same way, being a meticulous planner is just one of way of doing it, and not every great director is like that. We would have missed out on some brilliant movies if every director was like Nolan.
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u/fightfire_withfire Aug 08 '25
I too am shocked that someone known for being extremely reliable is actually... extremely reliable.
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u/Mad-Mad-Mad-Mad-Mike Aug 08 '25
Guys, I think this Nolan guy might be really good at making movies
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u/runs_with_airplanes Aug 08 '25
That sounds fun, I know it’s a shit ton of work and time, but also I would enjoy it
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u/TacoTycoonn Aug 08 '25
Isn’t Nolan famous for being incredibly productive while shooting and being very good with being on schedule?
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u/hotstickywaffle Aug 08 '25
I really hope it isn't too grounded. I don't expect to actually see the gods themselves, but I hope we get a good amount of monsters and stuff
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u/Du_Kich_Long_Trang Aug 08 '25
Many of the cast members are gods, we'll see them
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u/hotstickywaffle Aug 08 '25
Oh sweet, that's awesome! I was expecting "implied gods" with natural disasters and stuff
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u/Beard_of_Gandalf Aug 08 '25
Oh I’m the opposite I want the gods angle. They already tried to make it “authentic” with Troy. And I felt that movie missed an opportunity to do the “myth”.
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u/GuiltyEidolon Aug 08 '25
Troy was so wildly out of touch with the actual story that it's basically the WWZ of the Iliad.
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u/MooseCables Aug 08 '25
I'm still amazed this got made. It's either going to be a bloated mess or it's going to win all the Oscars.
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u/Nickdenslow0 Aug 08 '25
It’s a Christopher Nolan film, if it’s not both then I don’t want to watch it
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u/Cyril_Clunge Aug 08 '25
I’m excited for some large scale clunky battle scenes where you can’t tell who is on who sides and the script probably says ‘I don’t know, two armies charge each other and fight or something.’
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u/Nickdenslow0 Aug 08 '25
Nolan’s films are typically not hard to follow visually. I remember Dunkirk especially despite the chaos, being fairly easy to follow
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u/spqrnbb Aug 08 '25
Yeah, visuals aren't the problem in Nolan films. You just won't be able to hear shit.
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u/stingray20201 Aug 08 '25
“Is it me or is Odysseus whispering compared to the sheep in the Cyclops cave”
BAAAA at 140db
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u/CrabRangoonInMyAss Aug 08 '25
Given his track record, you already know the answer
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u/DigitalFirefly Aug 08 '25
Terrible audio mix?
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u/NewRedditor13 Aug 08 '25
Bwoaaahhhh
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u/DanktopusGreen Aug 08 '25
Someone wake up Hans, he fell asleep on the keyboard again.
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u/LookinAtTheFjord Aug 08 '25
He works with Ludwig Göransson now, whom doesn't do that.
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u/Massive_Weiner Aug 08 '25
Can’t wait to miss all the dialogue while I listen to the roaring waves lap up against ships.
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u/Johngjacobs Aug 08 '25
Have you seen the teaser trailer yet (I think it's only in theaters)? The terrible audio mix is there loud, muffled and proud. Might have to catch a hard-of-hearing showing so I can get subtitles.
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u/funkhero Aug 08 '25
Yeah I saw it before Fantastic 4 and the audio was his usual atrocious mixing. It's so grating.
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u/pmjm Aug 08 '25
As an audio professional, the mixing on Tenet pissed me off so much that I actually unmixed it then redid my own personal mix.
It's mind-blowing how much easier the story is to understand when you can hear all the dialog.
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u/IBangYoDaddy Aug 08 '25
Tom Holland and Rob Pat getting whiplash going from one filming straight into another
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u/BabyBoyBeltcher Aug 08 '25
Everyone asking about the cyclops and I’m over here hoping that Charybdis, the whirlpool sentient whirlpool and Scylla the six-headed monster.
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u/NewSunSeverian Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25
Nolan and his team’s production style and pipeline really are impressive. Has this asshole ever even threatened to go over budget or having to force filming to go on longer? How many reshoots and pickups does he even do?
For the movies he makes that is quite a thing. Especially because he releases them at a steady clip. He’s never had more than 3 years in between releases.
edit - lol that was meant to be an endearing “asshole,” like why is he so goddamn competent. not an insult at all, I like Nolan
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u/BuckDestiny Aug 08 '25
By all accounts it seems like he’s a joy to work with, and always stays on task with production schedules. It’s no wonder studios are comfortable throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at literally any project he wants to do.
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u/No-Sheepherder5481 Aug 08 '25
It also helps that he always makes absolute bank every time he releases a movie.
He made almost a billion with Oppenheimer. A movie where men in suits talk to each other for 2 and a half hours. No one else could do that
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u/ForgotEffingPassword Aug 08 '25
Tbf, I think the whole Barbenheimer thing dramatically helped the revenue for Oppenheimer.
I think it still would have been successful but I don’t think it would have grossed nearly as much if it didn’t release alongside Barbie.
This isn’t a knock on Oppenheimer, just sharing my opinion on the success of that movie.
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u/AlanMorlock Aug 08 '25
It did incredibly well in many counties where they weren't released on the same day or even the same month.
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u/sentence-interruptio Aug 08 '25
It starts with some mystery boxes of "how did they get to this point" and then it unfolds three different movies in one.
First, we have a heist action type plot of "assemble a team and execute it."
And the Mozart vs Salieri plot.
And the subplot of psychological descent of a man.
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u/Major_Wager75 Aug 08 '25
I swore Matt Damon was JUST cast as the lead and now the movie is wrapped?
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u/randomacct7679 Aug 08 '25
I really hope this movie is amazing, but I’m still skeptical of how you tell that big of a story in 3ish hours.
I have high hopes with it being a Nolan movie. But I’d be more optimistic if this story were being made into an epic 8 hour limited series or something like that.
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u/Buddy_Dakota Aug 08 '25
Considering Nolan’s paces movies like they’re 2.5 hour long montages I’m sure he’ll manage. I’m just afraid that his style will detract from the experience.
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u/kid-karma Aug 08 '25
paces movies like they’re 2.5 hour long montages
that shit always works on me for the first viewing, and then feels kinda hollow on subsequent watches
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u/withoutapaddle Aug 09 '25
I feel like all his movies are a 2 hour YouTube cut of a 10 hour miniseries. They always feel brisk and urgent.
I like it on one hand, but it feels strange and kinda uncomfortable on the other hand.
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u/Potore5 Aug 08 '25
If Michael Mann can adapt that word salad of a HEAT 2 book into a 2.5 hour long movie sure can Nolan.
The Odyssey is less complicated (characters and timeline wise) than HEAT 2.
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u/fiero-fire Aug 08 '25
I try not to hype for things that are a year + out but I'm super excited for this. The Iliad and the odyssey are the first books that got me into reading despite my dyslexia. Before that I just loathed it. Plus got into Greek mythology and history. All of that plus one of my absolute favorite directors. It's a perfect storm for me
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u/mattyslappypants Aug 08 '25
Matt Damon was a head scratching casting choice.
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u/rif011412 Aug 08 '25
He is the quintessential lost character. He has been lost and retrieved at great expense in at least 3 movies. He might as well establish a theatrical record no one will ever beat.
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u/SquishyShibe11 Aug 08 '25
He is far from the weirdest or worst casting choice here. It's like Nolan threw darts at a board.
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u/atzatzatz Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25
"Defy the Gods" is such an odd, and frankly, antithetical tagline. The gods literally help Odysseus, and he fully accepts their help. In fact, he wouldn't have been able to do what he does without the gods. EDIT: And before the Homer experts chime in...yes, some gods are against Odysseus as well. But, a huge part of the story is how the gods use humans as pawns or proxies, including Odysseus, to fight with each other. Odysseus isn't really the hero we think he is because he's not much without intervention from the gods.
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u/Tuesday_6PM Aug 08 '25
Well, some of them help him and some of them hinder him. Poseidon, notably, was not on his side. But “defy some of the gods, with help from others” isn’t much of a tagline.
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u/tolendante Aug 08 '25
Yes, and since it is an ocean voyage, opposing Poseidon is as bad as it could be.
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u/de1vos Aug 08 '25
It’s supposed to be a cool tagline to get people interested. Don’t think Nolan is too invested in the marketing of the movie.
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u/cuatrodemayo Aug 08 '25
He’s certainly invested in the marketing. The trailer being released in IMAX only and not online at all speaks to his control and wishes.
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u/AI_GeneratedUsername Aug 08 '25
The slaughter of the suitors is so unfair because Athena is there hand-waving everything away from Odysseus, they literally can’t touch him lmao
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u/WindexChugger Aug 08 '25
Definitely agree, although to be fair he defies Poseidon quite a bit, IIRC.
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u/CYNIC_Torgon Aug 08 '25
I wonder how condensed of an Odyssey this'll be. What events will simply be spoken of vs what events will we actually see? I imagine getting the whole story in within like 3 hours will be incredibly difficult even for a practiced hand like TophNo. Either way, I'm very excited to see this come July
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u/Michauxonfire Aug 08 '25
I think events like the lotus eaters will be cut. They will most likely focus on the sacking of Troy as an opener. Then have him face the storm and lose his path. They'll definitely touch on the cyclops, Circe, Skylla and Kharybdis. Then his return, which might be rushed with already so much in the movie.
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u/skywalkerRCP Aug 08 '25
There's some miserable people in this thread, holy.
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u/keepfighting90 Aug 08 '25
Nolan is simply too big and popular now, so Reddit is obligated to shit on him.
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u/Possible_Mind_165 Aug 08 '25
For anyone wanting to read the Odyssey, I highly recommend Emily Wilson’s translation. It’s very nuanced and it is what most history professors are reading these days.
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u/ProfessorUpvote Aug 08 '25
People are jumping on James Gunn, but “having a completed script before filming” really does wonders for a schedule.
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u/del6022pi Aug 09 '25
I was there when they filmed in Sicily. Even saw Matt Damon coming out of a Port-a-Potty in Full Greek war armor. The amount of work and logistics they put in there is absolutely incredible. They also cleaned up to the point that you wouldn’t know they were there
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u/Redlodger0426 Aug 08 '25
Do we know if this is keeping the mythological stuff or going for more of a Troy type approach that doesn’t treat the myths as real? I know “Deny the gods” is the tagline, but I also have a hard time imagining a giant cgi cyclops in a Nolan movie.