Christopher Nolan
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Christopher Nolan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm good, thanks.
How are you doing?
It's a world that I've been interested in for a long time.
About 20 years ago, I was briefly attached to direct Troy at Warner Brothers, the David Benioff script based on the Iliad.
And even though it's the Iliad, he had included the Trojan horse.
So I spent a lot of time thinking about how I wanted to portray that, how to bring that to a modern audience, how to make that sort of fresh, incredible.
And I came up with this idea of...
seeing this horse half buried in the sand, about to be swept away by the waves.
And I got very excited about that, and it sort of stayed with me for about 20 years.
And coming out of Oppenheimer, which succeeded far beyond our expectations, I mean, frankly, it was a great thrill, and it gave me an opportunity.
You know, when you've had a success like that for a studio,
you have an opportunity to make something you wouldn't otherwise get to make.
And so to take on, you know, not just that ancient world, but also the Odyssey, that kind of original foundational story that so many of us know and love, and do it on a grand scale in a way that's never been done before.
That's an opportunity that's just wonderful for a filmmaker.
Actually, not so much scary as familiar.
I mean, you find these stories within the poem, like old friends, you know, and I look at my previous work, like Interstellar, and realize how much that story drew from the Odyssey, or the Dark Knight trilogy draws so much from the Odyssey.
It...
It's a tale that is deceptively simple.
It has a beautiful structure, a nonlinear structure, the kind of structure I love.
It's about stories within stories, flashbacks within flashbacks.
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