News Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

[The Grinch Doctor]

At long last, we finally have an official trailer for Christopher Nolan's highly-anticipated adaptation of The Odyssey!

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As a massive Nolan fan, I'm obviously biased on this point but I'm very excited about this film and this trailer looks fantastic. I'm a huge Greek mythology buff and I'm thrilled to see Nolan tackling one of its greatest adventures.

...and that's before getting to the incredible cast Nolan has amassed for the film.

 

[theenglish]

I've been looking forward to this for over a year now. Looks like the movie will contain some backstory from The Iliad and Aenid as well. Who would have thought non-religious literary works two thousand years old would become bestsellers in the 21st century.

 

[The Grinch Doctor]

I caught the  Iliad references but what was the  Aenid reference?

 

[FPAlpha]

I've been looking forward to this for over a year now. Looks like the movie will contain some backstory from The Iliad and Aenid as well. Who would have thought non-religious literary works two thousand years old would become bestsellers in the 21st century.

Because those stories are epic as fuck and have influenced western culture deeply. When one starts reading greek mythology it feels like someone hitting you over the head with terms and names that we use today for events or locations and all have their roots in that mythology and you never really thought about the origins of these words or their roots.

And if there's one director who's still able to film epic sagas it's Nolan. I'm very curious about that movie, since i love Nolan for his original stories and apart from the few historic movies like Dunkirk and Oppenheimer he always was extremely creatives when he wrote the story from scratch. Let's what he does with such a massive and influential story like the Odyssey.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Looks good and I'll go; my only gripe so far is the viking longships, more than a thousand years before their time.

This should have been more the look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trireme

 

[theenglish]

I caught the  Iliad references but what was the  Aenid reference?

Wasn't the Trojan Horse in the trailer?

 

[The Grinch Doctor]

Wasn't the Trojan Horse in the trailer?

Oh, quite right. I keep forgetting how it wasn't actually mentioned in Iliad.

 

[The First Joel]

Pumped for this. Been waiting a while now for the trailer.