Fantasy Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

[Boom]

I want this to be the most expensive Harryhausen movie ever made.

 

[Black Narcissus]

I hope we get the same level of bad accents here, as we did with Branagh Russian accent. Brilliant call Nolan!

 

[Boom]

I assume Nolan's going the same route as Ridley Scott here.

I.e. **** accents. It's all make-believe.

 

[Sawyer]

I assume Nolan's going the same route as Ridley Scott here.

I.e. **** accents. It's all make-believe.

Eggers brought that back in style with Nosferatu.

 

[Boom]

Eggers brought that back in style with Nosferatu.

My GOAT.

 

[BatLobster]

Tenet is a 10/10 masterpiece. Criminally underrated. My hottest Nolan take is that it is leaps and bounds better than Inception.

The unfortunate thing about Tenet is that it kinda rules.

 

[SwordOfMorning]

The unfortunate thing about Tenet is that it kinda rules.

Tenet is a cool as **** vibes movie, aesthetically gorgeous with a bunch of really fun performances. It’s also a great, more cynical counterpoint to Interstellar thematically.

 

[Kane52630]

I wish all Nolan movies had Travis Scott's The Plan playing in the background.

 

[BatLobster]

I wish all Nolan movies had Travis Scott's The Plan playing in the background.

When the score version of The Plan kicks in during this truck scene that's a goosebumps moment for me. Ludwig goes bonkers here.

 

[NotToday]

I want this to be the most expensive Harryhausen movie ever made.

We want what we want; but do we really think Nolan is going to be copying special effects from the 60's?

 

[Arachnerd]

Knowing Nolan, if he chooses not to rely on CGI for what creatures could pop up, makeup, stopmotion and/or animatronics can do the trick. The latter two really aren't outdated, just more underutilized nowadays. Heck, Skeleton Crew recently used stopmotion and it looked great.

 

[Man in the Suit]

Tenet is a 10/10 masterpiece. Criminally underrated. My hottest Nolan take is that it is leaps and bounds better than Inception.

That's right.

 

[Boom]

Knowing Nolan, if he chooses not to rely on CGI for what creatures could pop up, makeup, stopmotion and/or animatronics can do the trick. The latter two really aren't outdated, just more underutilized nowadays. Heck, Skeleton Crew recently used stopmotion and it looked great.

This is the way.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Kane52630]

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Now that's the cyclops.

 

[Arachnerd]

Honestly never thought I'd see John Leguizamo in a Nolan movie, so I'm very excited to see him in this.

 

[NotToday]

Knowing Nolan, if he chooses not to rely on CGI for what creatures could pop up, makeup, stopmotion and/or animatronics can do the trick. The latter two really aren't outdated, just more underutilized nowadays. Heck, Skeleton Crew recently used stopmotion and it looked great.

That's great for Skeleton Crew, but 'someone else did it' is exactly why I think Nolan won't do that. I think he'd attempt something way more outside-the-box or innovative than that.

Sorry, I just don't see him doing stop-motion AND IMAX.

 

[Boom]

I mean, it's either stop motion, animatronics or CGI. Not sure what other innovations are out there for a creature like Scylla.

 

[Arachnerd]

What Boom said. Short of inventing a groundbreaking new technique that's gonna be revolutionary for cinema, those are the only options he has. If he ends up mentioning Ray Harryhausen as an influence for Odyssey in interviews, it would more or less confirm that he'd at least consider using stop-motion for the creature effects. And if there's anyone that could make stop-motion effects work in an IMAX format, or even a blend of the three, it would be Nolan.

 

[Boom]

I'd even go so far as to speculate that stop-motion and animatronics might be better for IMAX 70mm photography anyway. Because you're putting something tangible and real in front of the camera. There's texture, depth, and reactivity to light sources.

 

[NotToday]

I mean, it's either stop motion, animatronics or CGI. Not sure what other innovations are out there for a creature like Scylla.

Short of inventing a groundbreaking new technique that's gonna be revolutionary for cinema, those are the only options he has.

Is it, though? I don't know if he'll invent anything "revolutionary", but Nolan being Nolan, he (and his VFX team) would find a way to do it that wouldn't be so straightforward, I think. -- That is, assuming that the creatures are even in the film in a significant way; which I still have my doubts about. (Again, Nolan being Nolan.)

If he ends up mentioning Ray Harryhausen as an influence for Odyssey in interviews, it would more or less confirm that he'd at least consider using stop-motion for the creature effects.

We'll wait for that quote, I guess.

 

[Arachnerd]

I mean, I still disagree with your opinion of him doing away with the mythological aspects of the poem. I could maybe see him taking the similar approach that Ridley Scott did with Exodus: Gods and Kings, but I'd personally find that severely underwhelming and uninteresting.

 

[Art Vandelay]

He's not using stop motion, guys, come on...

 

[NotToday]

I mean, I still disagree with your opinion of him doing away with the mythological aspects of the poem. I could maybe see him taking the similar approach that Ridley Scott did with Exodus: Gods and Kings, but I'd personally find that severely underwhelming and uninteresting.

I don't think he'll necessarily do away with the mythological aspects. I just don't think he'll present them in a way everyone seems to expect (outside of his style); a way that's already been done. I could see the creatures as being more metaphorical than literal, maybe.

Depending on which actors are doing the heavy lifting, I think he will make it interesting.

 

[Boom]

I'm happy to give Nolan a long leash (and I mean a LONG leash), but adapting The Odyssey and abandoning the fantasy elements is a bridge too far for me personally. I don't mean this as literally as it comes across, but it seems pointless to even bother adapting this story if that's the case.

Simple fact of the matter is we don't know what Nolan's sensibilities are with high fantasy concepts such as this. But just because he hasn't tackled a fantasy story before doesn't mean he doesn't have an itch for this sort of stuff.