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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey - July 2026
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NecrosaroIII
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Incredible. Who's attached?
Unknown Soldier
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The story of the Odyssey is incredibly long, what are they going to cover in 1 movie?
Also I can't wait to see how they wokify the Odyssey. Will Odysseus be black??
Also I can't wait to see how they wokify the Odyssey. Will Odysseus be black??
Potato, potahto!
IntentionalPun
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Hollywood rumor mill is full of endless click bait these days, people are just lapping it up like crazy so it's no surprise.
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Having trouble picturing what this will be like.. which isn't a bad thing. More intriguing to me than something like Oppenheimer which I'll be completely honest... kind of bored me.
clarky
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I really like that movie tbh. His only dud for me was Tenent.
Interesting to see what he does with this, cant say the guy doesn't like a challenge!
IntentionalPun
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It's a good movie don't get me wrong; but I'm not going back to watch it again like I've done with something like Interstellar or the Batman films.
And I have no problem with long drama films, just something about Oppenheimer didn't FULLY click with me.
clarky
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Fair enough, cant say id sit through it again for a while either..
Interstellar on the other hand is interesting for me because i was fairly cold on it first time round but on subsequent viewings its now one of my favourites.
V1LÆM
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Robert Pattinson the only good name there.
FunkMiller
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That’s completely out of left field, and utterly perfect material for Nolan.
ManaByte
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He couldn't make Blue Thunder. Sony owns that and they're remaking it to be about drones.
FunkMiller
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I would have thought tiny Tom would be Telemachus, but that doesn’t jibe with Patts as Odysseus.
Edit: maybe Holland for Hermes?
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IntentionalPun
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God I would hope so.
Hoping Tom/Zendaya aren't featured too prominently myself. I think they'd be fine as younger/less prominent characters as they can still pull that off.
clarky
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Was a joke fella. But that was the rumour
The latest Christopher Nolan rumour? A story inspired by Blue Thunder
The 1983 helicopter thriller Blue Thunder is the inspiration for Christopher Nolan's next film - at least according to the latest rumour...
filmstories.co.uk
IntentionalPun
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Tom can still pull off early twenties and Pattinson is 38, so it's not that far fetched.
FunkMiller
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Zendaya's got to be a shoe-in for Circe.
FunkMiller
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Christian Bale for Zeus!
ManaByte
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Universal could never make a Blue Thunder movie. Sony owns the IP and they are making their own remake. Thus that site was spreading bullshit for clicks.
The entire origin of that "rumor" was Nolan flying around NYC in a helicopter to test these new IMAX cameras. Absolute and total bullshit clickbait.
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FunkMiller
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People had some fun with it. It was fine.
ManaByte
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Yea I'm sure they got something nice with the $100 that got them in their Adsense for the month.
IntentionalPun
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Yeah that could work! I don't particularly dislike Zendaya, it's really Holland I'm worried about. I just can't take the guy seriously and while I dislike the quippy character Zendaya often plays, I have to imagine that's not going to be true of this film. Unless Nolan is going to do one of those "classics but done in a contemporary setting" (gag.)
IDKFA
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Interesting choice. It's definitely a story that can easily incorporate Nolan's recurring theme of time.
clarky
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Which is why I made the Joke. And told you It was in jest. Guess it went over that head of yours.
FunkMiller
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That's why I'd pitch Holland as Hermes. He'd fit that flighty, god persona quite well.
ManaByte
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I’m excited because it’s Nolan, but it will be difficult to top the greatest Odyssey adaptation so far.
John Goodman as the cyclops was awesome.
FunkMiller
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Dave Bautista for Heracles!
Anne Hathaway for Athena!
(I'm basically fan casting this entire fucking thing at this point).
Anne Hathaway for Athena!
(I'm basically fan casting this entire fucking thing at this point).
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Doom85
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FunkMiller
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You seen him lately?
So? Actors alter their physical appearance for roles all the time. Not like he's not very well versed in how to manage his weight and look for performance reasons.
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ManaByte
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He’s said he prefers the smaller weight and feels better like that and wants those type of roles, not the muscle ones anymore. He’s chasing awards now.
FunkMiller
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Ah yes. The last thing he'd want if he wants to win awards is to be in a Chris Nolan film.
Damn, bet it opens with the Trojan Horse and the fall of Troy. Wonder how 'grounded' it will be versus full Clash of the Titans Greek god madness. Pattinson or whoever is Odysseus had better start yanking a bow to build up that technique and musculature, I want a guy with one arm twice the size of the other 
If we don't see some hefty humoral robusticity in the actor playing the greatest archer in history, is Nolan even trying???
Bow and muscles: Observed muscle activity in archers and potential implications for habitual activity reconstruction
"Previous research has suggested that reduced humeral asymmetry in robusticity in European Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene populations may be a result of increased left humeral robusticity due to muscle loading from increased use of bow hunting. This paper provides a basis for considering the causes of such changes by assessing the overall intensity and level of asymmetry in the distribution of muscle activation and muscle force among living male archers."If we don't see some hefty humoral robusticity in the actor playing the greatest archer in history, is Nolan even trying???
Angry_Megalodon
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An interesting project for Nolan, and very challenging.
Doubtful about the cast, though. I can't imagine any of them in this.
Doubtful about the cast, though. I can't imagine any of them in this.
DAHGAMING
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My first thinking, can easily see the slight mix up as there very similar.
Excited for this though, most films are straight to trash now days but I look forward to a Nolan film.