Nolan's 3-Hour 'The Odyssey' Opens in Theaters, Following Odysseus' 10-Year Journey Home

3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 18

Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" is now in theaters, dropping viewers into the final weeks of Odysseus' return after 10 years of wandering following Troy's fall.
Matt Damon plays Odysseus, with Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Tom Holland as Telemachus, Robert Pattinson as suitor Antinous and Zendaya as the goddess Athena.
The nearly three-hour film adapts Homer's epic set around 1200 B.C., after the decade-long Trojan War, meaning Odysseus has been away from Ithaca for 20 years by journey's end.
The story blends mythic elements such as gods and magic with a conflict historians broadly believe was rooted in real clashes around ancient Troy in Anatolia, now modern Turkey.

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