re: Nolan’s next film is…an adaptation of The Odyssey?

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This is an odd jump for him. Feels ego-driven and has high bust potential

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You could have said the same thing about his Batman trilogy.

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I really feel there was a missed opportunity to do the Odyssey a couple years after Troy came out with Sean Bean as Odysseus. He's too old for the role now.

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Never would have worked. Sean Bean isn’t meant to live that long in a film.

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This is an odd jump for him. Feels ego-driven and has high bust potential. Unless there's some unique angle here, seems like a relatively workaday story to tell for him. There's gotta be a less well-known and less attempted story out there to tell.

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If there is one thing I have learned over the last 20 years it's to give Christopher Nolan the benefit of the doubt. He always finds a way to tell what is seemingly a straightforward story in an interesting and unique way.

Sounds really miscast, which is a surprise for Nolan.

I thought I read that Holland was playing a young Odysseus and Damon an older version of him.

Vanessa Williams as Calypso was hot af

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I think Bernthal will play Achilles in a flashback.

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I'm starting to look forward to this adaptation. I like the acting ability of the cast, even if I can't "see" how they may fit certain characters in the narrative right now.

I think if anyone can nail a legitimate epic at this point, it's Nolan. Unfortunately, the Ridley Scott ship for good epics has sailed.

Very unusual of Nolan to have two films lined up like that.

I like it.

The good news is it can't be worse than Tenet.