Nolan’s Odyssey Sends Tourists to Ithaca. What They Find is a Rubbish Dump
Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Odyssey film broke box office records this summer and sent tourists flooding to Ithaca, the island Homer named as Odysseus’s…
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Nolan’s Odyssey Sends Homer Book Sales Up 1,400%
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has done something no classical scholar managed to pull off. In the four weeks after the film opened in mid-July, UK sales of…
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Nolan’s Odyssey: Epic or Disaster? His Biggest Gamble Yet
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has landed in cinemas and the debate is already out of control. Classics scholars are furious, critics are divided, and audiences…
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Nolan’s Odyssey Pulls $87M in Week 2, Beats The Dark Knight
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is showing no signs of slowing down. The film pulled in $87 million in its second weekend at the North American box office…
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Mitsotakis Calls Nolan to Thank Him for Filming the Odyssey in Greece
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called Christopher Nolan on Monday to personally congratulate him on bringing Homer’s Odyssey to the big screen. The…
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Greek Director: “Nolan’s Odyssey is Hostile to Greeks”
Greek film director Yiannis Smaragdis has come out swinging against Christopher Nolan’s upcoming “Odyssey,” calling it a potential act of deception against the…
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Nolan’s Odyssey: Epic or Disaster? His Biggest Gamble Yet
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has not opened in theaters yet, and it is already being called the cinematic event of the year. The film has generated enough buzz…
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Nolan’s Odyssey: Every Major Change He Made to Homer
Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the Odyssey runs three hours, but Homer’s epic runs nearly 12,000 lines. Something had to give, and Nolan’s choices…
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Nolan’s Odyssey: Backlash Grows as Screenings Get Canceled
Christopher Nolan has canceled all advance screenings of his upcoming film “The Odyssey” for movie influencers, restricting early access only to approved…
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Nolan’s Odyssey: Archaeologists Find Historical Errors, Then Defend Them
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has archaeologists and historians picking it apart, and then defending it in the same breath. The film, starring Matt Damon as…
