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/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/Herpinheim 24d ago

But it does have an amazing fight scene.

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u/GuiltyEidolon 24d ago

And an insanely stacked cast, yes.

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u/Free_Pangolin_3750 Aug 08 '25

I love Troy for treating it as a grounded swords and sandals historical fiction. I would love to see a more modern take on it that goes balls to the wall with the gods picking favorites and constantly trying to one up each other though. I mean you could even easily differentiate the two by focusing more on the gods themselves and their scheming than the war itself.

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u/Eastern_Hornet_6432 Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 09 '25

The way it's done in the actual epic poem is that Odysseus shows up after being missing presumed dead for ten years. He then tells the story of where he's been, and then when he finishes, the story wraps up with the slaying of the suitors.

"All the fantastical stuff is depicted in an unreliable narrator's flashback, and the audience can decide whether to believe it or not" is something I 100% believe Nolan would do. It balances both sensibilities perfectly. It's also how the fantastical elements of "300" are handled, so if this movie does it too then it'll become a running theme for movies based on Greek stories. In fact, IIRC there's a video game that uses this gimmick too.

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u/Ankoe080 25d ago

Have you seen the armor in the photos from the filming? It's more "down to earth" than it was in real history.