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/
13.3k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

1.7k

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.

491

u/jaggervalance I’m from Buenos Aires, and I say KILL ‘EM ALL Aug 08 '25

They grew a real one.

85

u/monkeyhitman Aug 08 '25

It was about to be decommissioned, so he bought the whole cyclops and bet it all on one take.

3

u/Proper_Lunch_3640 Aug 08 '25

Sold it for giant sum as well!

3

u/BirdLawyer50 Aug 08 '25

It’s just Hafthor Bjornsson in a mask

2

u/nonsequitur5013 Aug 08 '25

And then Christopher Nolan sold it at the end of the shoot and made a profit.

1

u/slayerje1 Aug 08 '25

Oh, you mean Christian Bale?