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?
I'm skipping this movie.
ReplyDeleteI 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!
ReplyDeleteIs it as trashy as it sounds with that cast?
DeleteI'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.
ReplyDeleteI think he's one of the most overrated directors around and i'm sure people/fanboys only worship at his feet because of those glum totally unfun bar Ledger Batman films.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why, but it just seems so bizarre to me to cast all these non-Greek people in these roles. Anne Hathaway? Matt Damon? There have been so many great authentic adaptations of literature recently (the Neapolitan novels, the One Hundred Years of Solitude series on Netflix) that it kind of gives me whiplash to see this boring, unimaginative casting.
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