The first official images from Christopher Nolan's film of The Odyssey have started to land (via the new issue of Empire magazine I believe) and I figured it would be this shot of Tom Holland playing the character of Telemachus that would blow up all y'all skirts the best. This movie's not out until July 17th 2026 so we've got some time to decide whether we give a shit -- well I suppose "we" really equals "me" since I'm the biggest Nolan naysayer around. And yet! And yet I did like Oppenheimer. So maybe I'll like this one even more and Nolan will suddenly become a director I appreciate again, which hasn't really been a thing since Memento. (Okay okay I do mostly like The Dark Knight too.) With a cast that includes Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Anne Hathaway, Mia Goth, Jon Bernthal, Zendaya, Logan Marshall-Green, Lupita Nyong'o and Samantha Morton (among others) there'll certainly be somebody worth staring at most of the time... but then Nolan's always gotten big starry casts which he then usually squanders. I'm trying to be optimistic, really! How are y'all feeling about the prospects on this one?
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I'm skipping this movie.
I may see it, but it can’t top that terrific miniseries with Armand Assanti as Odysseus; Greta Scachi as Penelope and an ensemble that includes Bernadette Peters, Eric Roberts and Vanessa Williams. That’s brilliant!
Is it as trashy as it sounds with that cast?
I've pretty thoroughly soured on Nolan in the past decade. I liked 'Interstellar' but have skipped most of what he's done since. Even 'Oppenheimer' looks overblown and pretentious, which I'd have thought impossible given the subject matter.
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