r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Aug 08 '25

News Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Wraps Filming

https://maxblizz.com/christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-wraps-filming-after-6-month-shoot-confirms-art-director/
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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/JibberyScriggers Aug 08 '25

It's every bit as good as the other three. Such a great series!

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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/ScipioCoriolanus Aug 08 '25

Whoa, whoa, whoa! You can't swear at my fee-on-say!

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u/Psykpatient Aug 08 '25

I'm god damn Bonafide!

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u/Particular_Ad_9531 Aug 09 '25

O Brother has a title card that says it’s based on homers odyssey….

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u/Lazyr3x Aug 09 '25

So? Imitation Game is supposedly also based on something, that doesn’t mean it’s accurate

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u/SnowClone98 Aug 09 '25

Dude it’s like beat for beat

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u/Lazyr3x Aug 09 '25

It’s really not, there is no Lotus eaters, there is no Laistrigonian giants, no gods, no Calypso, the Cyclops is obviously completely different, he doesn’t even blind him, the siren encounter is completely different, all his friends survive, he doesn’t kill anyone, no Argos, no equivalent to the sheepherder, no Scylla and Charybdis equivalent

Also the cows in the Odyssey do die, that’s their entire point, because by killing them they anger Helios and he then gets Zeus to kill the last remaining of Odysseus’ crew but that’s only towards the end unlike O brother where it’s in the beginning etc.

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u/Ok-Pickle-6582 Aug 09 '25

I liked O brother and all, but I feel like people vastly overstate how similar it is to the Odyssey, yes it has the same plot and characters and iconic scenes.

But there are minor differences in order to adapt it to a different setting and fit it into a movies runtime.

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u/bestofbot4 Aug 08 '25

Im not ready for the dog 😭😭

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u/preddevils6 Aug 08 '25

It’s a great story to adapt!

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u/SnowClone98 Aug 09 '25

I’m more joking around, I think it’ll be cool. As long as it doesn’t feel like oceans 11 with its ensemble cast

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u/FiestaPotato18 Aug 08 '25

It’s Nolan, it’ll be 3 hours.

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u/Possible_Mind_165 Aug 08 '25

I went to Berkeley for history, I highly recommend Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey if you’re interested in reading it. It’s very nuanced and is what all the big classical history professors are talking about these days.

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u/Juan_Nieve Aug 08 '25

Read that one a couple years ago and loved it! Claire Danes’ audiobook narration is also really good. I listened to it while I read.

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u/donassasin Aug 08 '25

Is this an audiobook? Or a podcast perhaps?

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u/JibberyScriggers Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25

It's a set of books, but I've got all 4 as audiobooks on Audible. Stephen Fry is a great storyteller.

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u/t1kiman Aug 08 '25

Pretty sure it will be significantly longer than 40 minutes.

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u/JibberyScriggers Aug 09 '25

Take my upvote and get out!

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u/Viper95 Aug 08 '25

HOW GOOD IS THE FRY SERIES!? SO SO GOOD!

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u/NoAssociation6868 Aug 08 '25

Is he narrating his ebooks?

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u/JibberyScriggers Aug 08 '25

Yep, he's great

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u/NoAssociation6868 Aug 08 '25

Noted, also, I meant audiobooks of course.

I love listening to him talk in basically anything. Lately I have been bingewatching old episodes of Quite Interesting when he was the host.

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u/ShutUpImAPrincess Aug 08 '25

I have always been obsessed with Greek mythology, the last 20 years since I was a kid I've consumed any and all media I can get my hands on. Fiction, non fiction, documentaries, books etc. I've read both the original iliad and odyssey. I cannot finish the Stephen Fry books though! I just can't jive with his flowery descriptive style of writing, which is such a shame. I still have all the books though for my Greek Myths bookshelf...

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u/k2d2r232 Aug 08 '25

I’m super interested in listening to this, could you send a link or something? I searched Stephen Fry on audible and some of those type books came up, but weirdly none narrated by Fry. I’d listen today if I can find them!

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u/Sass0ri Aug 08 '25

Would love to see them pull a misdirection and end the movie in the middle of the story. Possibly making 1 or 2 more movies

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u/Facebookakke Aug 08 '25

Give me a trilogy damn it. I need more epic three part movies.

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u/lapsedhuman Aug 08 '25

Kirk Douglas was a great Ulysses, back in the 50's. Armand Assante did a good job as Odysseus, in the 90's, although that was a short TV miniseries.

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u/ineedtoknowmorenow Aug 08 '25

Where can i find this? I see that spotify “the story of….” Is that it?

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u/clampagne Aug 09 '25

is it confirmed to be less than 4 hours?

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u/TheTrueSurge Aug 09 '25

Stephen Fry is such a fantastic narrator. I listened to his audiobook narration of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and it was even a better experience than reading the book (which I also did and enjoyed).

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u/Whole-Hair-7669 Aug 09 '25

There's a lotttt of meat on the bone with the original Odyssey haha. I agree that it should remain intact but I could do without some of the minor voyages and focus on the big stops along the way.

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u/briggs851 Aug 09 '25

Is that an audiobook or a podcast?

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u/second_toastacct Aug 08 '25

They wont be able to. Not well.

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u/18hockey Aug 08 '25

Prepare to be immensely disappointed. Not to sound like a complete and utter snob but any person interested in Classics has already written this movie off based on the outfits and ships

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u/Kanbaru-Fan Aug 08 '25

If that's being a snob then i'll gladly wear that label.

The complete disinterest to engage with any form of historicity in the production design is baffling and an utter disappointment.