Christopher Nolan China Interview Goes Viral Over Frank Views on Critics, Christian Themes in ‘The Odyssey,’ Being a “Bard for a Civilization at Dusk”

The Oscar-winning filmmaker's substantive sit-down with Chinese podcaster Zhong Shu wasn't the usual surface-level press tour interview.

Casting Lupita Nyong’o as Helen and Elliot Page as Sinon the soldier were bold and exciting choices in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Both signalled a departure from conventional, hyper-masculine Hollywood treatments of Greek myth. The comments of Elon Musk and many others on X confirmed Nolan’s success in that rega

Cast as the muscular, helmet-clad Laodamas alongside Matt Damon's Odysseus, Avery continues an unlikely post-hockey pivot to Hollywood.

Christopher Nolan is not exactly famous for handing out compliments. His sets run with a discipline that borders on the monastic, and by his cast's telling, the word "perfect" crosses his lips roughly once a decade. Matt Damon, who by his own account logged some of the most demanding months of his career shooting "The

Matt Damon's Odysseus dramatizes a condition clinicians call moral injury — distinct from PTSD — that still shows up in veterans today.

Since Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" came out, it has generated over $300 million…  and a growing conversation about what is missing compared to the original poem. But what is that exactly? In a scathing review published recently, classicist and translator of Homer’s epic, Emily Wilson, had much to say about what di