WHAT WE’RE WATCHING: Nolan’s The Odyssey reimagines Homer in an epic worth the journey

Director Christopher Nolan adapts Homer’s ancient mythological poem of heroes, monsters, and gods into a star-studded blockbuster epic.

Samantha Morton revealed on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that she has been out of acting work for an entire year since wrapping production on Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” in 2025. The two-time Oscar nominee attributed her age as the reason why. “I haven’t worked for a year since making ‘The Odyssey,’ you know,

Poetry sales surpassed £8m in the first 30 weeks of 2026 and are expected to reach a record high this year thanks to blockbuster adaptation of Homer’s 2,700-year-old poem UK poetry sales are on course to reach a record high this year, buoyed by the success of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film adaptation of Homer’s

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.

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