‘The Odyssey’ Translator Emily Wilson blasts Nolan's 'abysmal' film, 'would be ashamed' to have made it

Emily Wilson, whose translation influenced Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," calls the film's script "abysmal" and says it butchered Odysseus' character.

Wilson, whose translation of 'The Odyssey' was used as a reference for the film adaptation, wrote a review of the film that has the internet abuzz.

The academic whose acclaimed translation of The Odyssey helped inspire Sir Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster has delivered a blistering review of the film, saying she “would be ashamed” to have written its script.

Odyssey translator savages Nolan’s blockbuster as ‘gimmicky’ and ‘superficial’  lbc.co.uk

The professor trashed the film after Nolan sung her praises during the press tour.

Back in May 2025, it was revealed that Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” ” would be the first feature film shot entirely with Imax 70mm cameras. That announcement sparked interest from other filmmakers. As “The Odyssey’s” box office sails to nearly $300 million domestically, with Imax 70mm screenings sold out for weeks

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is the film of the moment, but classicist Emily Wilson who translated Homer's ancient Greek poem in 2017 has criticised the film adaptation, saying it has "nothing convincing to say."

Emily Wilson said she would be ‘ashamed’ to have written any part of the script for Christopher Nolan’s epic.

Sir Christopher Nolan's latest film, The Odyssey, may have won rave reviews from critics and done storming business at the box office - but one person is definitely not happy.

Christopher Nolan has said that his $250 million epic, The Odyssey, was shaped by the opening line of Emily Wilson’s celebrated translation: “Tell me about a complicated man.” The director praised the “genius” and “inventiveness” of Homer’s hero, insisting that Odysseus was “not just a soldier” but “an amazing strategi

The film has won rave reviews from film critics but a translator of Homer's work was less than impressed.

Christopher Nolan dealt blow as translator behind The Odyssey rips apart movie: 'I'd be ashamed!'  GB News

Photo by Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pic The world-renowned classicist and translator of Homer’s The Odyssey, whom filmmaker Christopher Nolan credited as inspiring his blockbuster film, has slammed the movie. Emily Wilson, one of the foremost authorities on Homeric poetry and the first woman to translate The Odyssey

“As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of The Odyssey into iambic pentameter. In at least one interview, he cited my version of the first line of the poem: ‘Tell me about a complicated man.’ But I would be ashamed…

In early publicity for his recently released The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan cited Emily Wilson's opening line in her translation of The Odyssey as a reference point for main character Odysseus. But Wilson's feelings about Nolan's take appear more mixed.

The new blockbuster "lacks many of the elements that make the poem great," writes Emily Wilson, the classics professor who famously translated Homer's poem in 2017

Classics Expert Who Inspired Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Rips Film To Absolute Shreds  HuffPost

Acclaimed 'Odyssey' translator Emily Wilson opens fire on Nolan's hit epic — from an "abysmal" script to lack of sex scenes.

Wilson, whose work on Homer’s epic was praised by Nolan, said his film was grandiose and superficial with ‘nothing convincing to say’ Emily Wilson, the classicist whose 2017 translation of Homer’s Odyssey was cited by Christopher Nolan in early publicity for his hugely successful

The Odyssey effect: Nolan’s film drives epic rush to learn Greek  The Times