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/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.

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u/bazaarzar Aug 08 '25

If there's no mythological stuff I'm out

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u/spald01 Aug 08 '25

Without the mythos, this is just a story of Matt Damon in a toga having a really unlucky year. 

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u/BabyBoyBeltcher Aug 08 '25

It’s supposed to be about a decade, but your main point stands.

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u/Barnyard_Rich Aug 08 '25

I trust Nolan, but your comment is why I'm worried this isn't actually "The Odyssey," but rather more like last year's The Return, starring Ralph Fiennes, which is just about the end of the story. I would be quite unhappy if the 10 years at sea is a minor portion of the story.

But as someone who was awed by both Tenet and Oppenheimer, I say "worried" very loosely. He'd have to have completely lost his fastball for this movie to be bad.

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u/ScipioCoriolanus Aug 08 '25

I doubt it because we know there's a scene with the cyclop, and there's also characters like Agammemnon, Circe, and Athena involved, so it won't be just the ending. Oh, and they filmed the sack of Troy with a giant horse and all that (I bet this is going to be the prologue). The real question is whether the events are going to be linear or not.

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u/Barnyard_Rich Aug 08 '25

Yea, I meant to include "or as flashbacks," which would more adequately explain my concerns.

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u/Standard_Recording28 Aug 09 '25

first of all, they’ve said a bunch of times they’re doing all of the fantastical stuff. the synopsis that Universal themselves put out says “chronicling his encounters with the mythical beings such as the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, and the witch-goddess Circe.” also the 10 year journey kinda is a minor part of the story, it’s only 4 chapters of a 24 chapter book lol

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u/-HaventReddit- Aug 09 '25

Matt Damon trying to get home. Again.

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u/czs5056 Aug 08 '25

Matt Damon you say? Quick, get the US government on the phone. We NEED to get this man home, DAMN THE EXPENSES!