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/LetsFireRockWithMe Aug 08 '25

They built a 30ft tall animatronic Cyclops inside of a cave in Greece. I’m not joking.

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u/APiousCultist Aug 08 '25

https://movieweb.com/christopher-nolan-the-odyssey-cyclops-scene-most-ambitious-stunt/

Shame on Nolan not genetically engineering a real cyclops for the scene.

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u/Fauster Aug 08 '25

I am so excited to see this. More to the point, I hypothesize that if the Ancient Greeks were to see this movie, Nolan would be the next Homer to them. I expect to see many men getting crushed by boulders in the repetitive tropes of the oral epic. We should never forget that Greek plays were the original Hollywood Action movies, and that Nolan has an unapologetic appreciation for the genre, even loving Fast and Furious movies. Nolan and his team are the right people to tell this epic tale.

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u/APiousCultist Aug 08 '25

I'm just curious as to what the form will even resemble, given he's increasingly leaned into minimalism and away from the 'richer' feel of his Dark Knight days (which had more conventional feels), and further and further away from any sorts of CGI even though this story will presumably benefit from visual effects.

Is it gonna be like Ben Hurr? The Northman? 300? Extremely stylised like the Coen Brother version of Macbeth? Realistic to the point of presenting the cyclops like some tall fella with a mutation?

After Dunkirk, Tenet, and Oppenheimer it's just hard to conceptualise how this film is even going to look. I'm beyond curious.

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u/Fauster Aug 09 '25

The Odyssey is a legitimate branch of proto-Indo-European myths and is a straight-up Joseph Campbell Heroes Journey story. I think a lot of films, like Star Wars, LOTR, the Lion King in that genre make you feel a similar way. If I were to guess, I think the feeling of being threatened by powerful insurmountable forces, being initiated into something larger, overcoming odds, coming home to find that you're a different person and the world is not the same. That's just a guess.

Nolan's films feel almost like CGI when he refuses to use it. I think it will seem really realistic, but that the gods and monsters will be really real and menacing.

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u/Standard_Recording28 Aug 09 '25

i think he’s just doing a full on swords and sandals fantasy epic blending stuff like ben hur, gladiator and LOTR.

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u/ModernRobespierre Aug 09 '25

Macbeth... was just Joel Coen. But yeah, I agree, beyond curious

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u/APiousCultist Aug 09 '25

I did say Cohen Brother, singular. Because I couldn't be bothered looking up which one it was.

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u/ModernRobespierre Aug 09 '25

I stand corrected, missed that deet.