Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many film cameras: Christopher Nolan's ODYSSEY

Starring Matt Damon as a toilet brush:

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Plus everyone else so far:

Tom Holland
Zendaya
Robert Pattinson
Lupita Nyong'o
Anne Hathaway
Charlize Theron
Jon Bernthal
Benny Safdie
John Leguizamo
Elliot Page
Himesh Patel
Bill Irwin
Samantha Morton
Mia Goth
Corey Hawkins
Jesse Garcia
Will Yun Lee
Rafi Gavron
Shiloh Fernandez
Nick E Tarabay
Jimmy Gonzales
Maurice Compte

I don't know how this is a good idea but I've doubted Nolan before.

Jon Bernthal might have made a pretty good Odysseus. Matt Damon, not so much. Honestly, a lot of that cast list is a flashing neon STAY AWAY sign. Ooh, is Zendaya gonna make her one facial expression again?

He should make them all act in ancient Greek.

Needs Tim Blake Nelson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNaCWSAAb8A

He's going to do the mo cap for the cyclops.

He's also going to do the mo cap for Matt Damon.

Yeah this sounds very bad. Nolan often a Cinema of Quality bore and this will be tailor made for that.

assume by this time next year it will be a trilogy

RPattz IS cyclops

bring on the lotus eaters i am here for all this imo

All in on IMAX:

After the success of Oppenheimer, which earned more than $190 million on Imax screens, some 20 percent of its total gross, Nolan challenged the company to improve its cameras, to make them lighter and quieter, and to solve issues with scanning and processing the cameras’ 70 mm film stock, to allow him to easily watch dailies as he shot.

“Chris called me up and said If you can figure out how to solve the problems, will make (Odyssey) 100 percent in Imax. And that’s what we’re doing,” said Imax CEO Rich Gelfond, speaking at the company’s annual press lunch in Cannes on Thursday. “He forced us to rethink that side of our business, our film recorders, our film cameras.”

The new Imax cameras are reportedly 30 percent quieter — so those infamous muffled dialogue scenes in Nolan films could be a thing of the past — and substantially lighter. Gelfond said new film scanning and processing techniques will allow a faster turnaround for dailies.

Having recently read Emily Watson's translation, it was plain to me that Homer's primary concern in every single book of the Odyssey wasn't stuff like the spectacle of blinding the giant cyclops or men turned into swine. Nope. Homer was mostly focused on the proper relationship between hosts and guests, their conduct toward one another, and the various gradations of propriety determined by social status, power, and wealth among the participants. It was a book of bronze age etiquette at least as much as an adventure story. I doubt this will be made apparent in Nolan's adaptation.

Let's go defy some gods:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gu2dTQsWsAAxmSd?format=jpg&name=900x900

And if that didn't work:

https://images.bauerhosting.com/empire/2025/07/odyssey-poster-christopher-nolan.jpg?auto=format&w=992&q=80

There has to be some way to put this alongside a poster of The Brutalist so it looks like these sparks are coming from Adrien Brody

Having recently read Emily Watson's translation, it was plain to me that Homer's primary concern in every single book of the Odyssey wasn't stuff like the spectacle of blinding the giant cyclops or men turned into swine. Nope. Homer was mostly focused on the proper relationship between hosts and guests, their conduct toward one another, and the various gradations of propriety determined by social status, power, and wealth among the participants. It was a book of bronze age etiquette at least as much as an adventure story. I doubt this will be made apparent in Nolan's adaptation.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 15 May 2025 19:34 (one month ago)

180 minutes and 9 seconds of who eats what and in what order they eat. Filmed in IMAX.

Initial teaser running before Superman. Tom Holland asking about his dad, a tiny Trojan Horse, and floating around on wreckage.

So maybe Aimless was OTM

https://bsky.app/profile/grousehollow.bsky.social/post/3lwp6v2e63c2u

At last I have finished The Odyssey, after many years and triumphs and tragedies and olive oil rubdowns and what-have-you. So finally know what the epic is all about, which is this: eating meat. Lots and lots and lots of meat.