Christopher Nolan's Odyssey adaptation draws scrutiny after trailer and interview
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Updated · The Guardian · May 6
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey adaptation draws scrutiny after trailer and interview
8 articles · Updated · The Guardian · May 6
Set for 17 July, the film stars Matt Damon as Odysseus, with new footage highlighting Ithaca, the Cyclops, Charybdis and Robert Pattinson as suitor Antinous.
Nolan told Stephen Colbert he wanted to give Greek mythology a big-budget treatment and confirmed the story begins in Ithaca, echoing Homer's original non-linear structure.
The adaptation appears to retain the poem's gods and major set pieces, while open questions remain over how it will handle slavery, sex and the suitors' violent deaths.
Will Christopher Nolan's Odyssey embrace the epic’s darkest themes, or soften them for modern audiences?
How will Nolan’s non-linear storytelling and unreliable narrator approach change our understanding of Odysseus’s journey?