Christopher Nolan
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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But it's the story of Odysseus coming home from the Trojan War.
So it's this homecoming story.
And that's a narrative I've been interested in for many years, as a lot of us have.
It's very relatable.
But it's also a coming of age story.
Tom Holland's character of Telemachus
coming of age, the absence of this father that he barely remembers, if at all.
And you have the character of Penelope at home trying to keep things together in Ithaca, waiting for 20 years for Odysseus to come back.
So it's a love story as well.
And it's a war story.
And so many different things are elements of fantasy and harsh reality to do with love and death and loss.
There's really a lot in there, but the story is incredibly cohesive and I think very cinematic.
When I came to look at the original text again and really, you know, borrow in on the specifics of the epic poem, I found amazing cinematic payoffs.
I mean, just gold to a filmmaker.
There's just so much in there.
And shockingly, it hangs together with all of that.
And so, you know, for me in adapting it, and I love the process of adaptation, it's really...
a fun thing to take a different kind of text.
Like in the case of Oppenheimer, I was working from a 700-page very academic book about the life of Oppenheimer, and I'm trying to find the movie in that.
And with this, a very different kind of challenge, but it was a process of reading it again and again and again and really internalizing it, and then sitting down and just trying to make the cinematic narrative that it needed to be.
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