Fantasy Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

[blueharvest]

 

[Drizzle]

Göransson’s Odyssey score vs Zimmer’s Dune Messiah score at the Oscars:

Nolan:

 

[AndrewGilkison]

Göransson’s Odyssey score vs Zimmer’s Dune Messiah score at the Oscars:

Nowadays you show a kid this, and they will go "Peacemaker vs. Black Adam!"

 

[Snow Queen]

Nowadays you show a kid this, and they will go "Peacemaker vs. Black Adam!"

Bull****. No one remembers Black Adam.

 

[Kane52630]

The Scorpion King vs The Marine

 

[Sawyer]

Nowadays you show a kid this, and they will go "Peacemaker vs. Black Adam!"

lol as if any kids have retained knowledge of Black Adam.

 

[Boom]

 

[Arachnerd]

Pretty pls.

 

[Lily Adler]

He has the entirety of Universal at his disposal, so hopefully practical with CGI touch up.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

 

[Filmfreak]

Imagine mixing Nolan's most classic trope with The Odyssey and having Odysseus' dead wife waiting for his return. Boom, there's your Nolan horror flick after all.

 

[BatLobster]

He did do that documentary on the Quay Brothers so I’ve always been curious if he’d ever venture into stop motion animation himself. Would be so rad.

 

[Gothamsknight]

If he does this, I'll levitate.

 

[Arachnerd]

From DanielRPK, so obviously take it with a grain of salt, but I still hope this turns out to be the case.

 

[Enriquespy]

Excellent.

I mean I like Troy, but C'mon. We need them monsters and gods.

 

[Mjolnir Reborn]

I hope that's true since that's the reason I'm interested in seeing him doing it. I'm sure he could make a good film without it but it wouldn't get me very excited beforehand.

 

[Drizzle]

Excellent.

I mean I like Troy, but C'mon. We need them monsters and gods.

Yeah, unlike The Iliad where there's enough of a human conflict to work around the more fantastical elements, you can't properly adapt The Odyssey without them.

 

[BatLobster]

You know for as much as people might doubt that Nolan would truly go fantastical, I think it’s easy to forget that he’s put stuff on screen like: fear toxin Batman, Two-Face, limbo in Inception, the tesseract in Interstellar, etc. I don’t think he’ll hesitate to throw every technique in the book at this to bring it to life, especially with a blank check from Universal.

Pretty damn exciting, because you know with all the location shooting and just his overall aesthetic, it’s gonna feel “real” which will both pull you into Odysseus’ journey and make the heightened elements jump off the screen even more.

 

[J.Drangal]

You know for as much as people might doubt that Nolan would truly go fantastical, I think it’s easy to forget that he’s put stuff on screen like: fear toxin Batman, Two-Face, limbo in Inception, the tesseract in Interstellar, etc. I don’t think he’ll hesitate to throw every technique in the book at this to bring it to life, especially with a blank check from Universal.

Pretty damn exciting, because you know with all the location shooting and just his overall aesthetic, it’s gonna feel “real” which will both pull you into Odysseus’ journey and make the heightened elements jump off the screen even more.

I've lost count of the number of times I've gone into tirades about Nolan's "realism".
His approach is usually and simply that of classic science-fiction, finding just the right amount of real basis to then "sell" us something more fantastic in the most credible way possible.
But he's still a filmmaker with machines capable of cloning or traveling through time and space or dreams, etc.

Here, given the nature of the source, he certainly won't need pseudo-science, but I'm sure he won't shy away offering us his vision of this mythological bestiary.

More subjectively, I also think this will bring some fresh air into his filmography.

 

[Enriquespy]

Yeah, unlike The Iliad where there's enough of a human conflict to work around the more fantastical elements, you can't properly adapt The Odyssey without them.

Certainly, but...

I just like monsters and superpowers.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Arachnerd]

Pretty much to be expected given the epic scope of the Odyssey.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

Probably will also be his longest.

 

[Snow Queen]

Probably will also be his longest.

Looking at The Brutalist having an intermission as a green light.

 

[NotToday]

Here, given the nature of the source, he certainly won't need pseudo-science, but I'm sure he won't shy away offering us his vision of this mythological bestiary.

I'm just sayin' -- for better or worse, dude has a brand at this point, and I don't know if his 'vision of mythological bestiary' is the Clash of the Titans imagery that people are hoping for.

More subjectively, I also think this will bring some fresh air into his filmography.

That would be great.