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‘If you see one movie this year’: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey set to storm the box office
The summer’s most anticipated film will raise epic questions about culture wars, classics and the nature of film-making In a plot twist worthy of the ancient bards themselves, the hottest movie of the summer isn’t a superhero flick, or an alien-invasion yarn, or a crinolines-and-bonnets period drama. Instead, it is an adaptation of a nearly 3,000-year-old epic poem, which film-maker Christopher Nolan is releasing as a follow-up to Oppenheimer , his grim, Oscar-winning study of the origins of nuclear war. Nolan, previously director of Memento , the Dark Knight trilogy and Dunkirk , has now turned his attention to the Odyssey, the classical Greek saga that, along with its companion epic the Iliad, is one of the foundational works of western civilisation. Nolan’s adaptation is a big-budget affair, the largest of his career at an estimated $250m , and the director has peopled it with a cast
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The summer’s most anticipated film will raise epic questions about culture wars, classics and the nature of film-making In a plot twist worthy of the ancient bards themselves, the hottest movie of the summer isn’t a superhero flick, or an alien-invasion yarn, or a crinolines-and-bonnets period drama. Instead, it is an adaptation of a nearly 3,000-year-old epic poem, which film-maker Christopher Nolan is releasing as a follow-up to Oppenheimer , his grim, Oscar-winning study of the origins of nuclear war. Nolan, previously director of Memento , the Dark Knight trilogy and Dunkirk , has now turned his attention to the Odyssey, the classical Greek saga that, along with its companion epic the Iliad, is one of the foundational works of western civilisation. Nolan’s adaptation is a big-budget affair, the largest of his career at an estimated $250m , and the director has peopled it with a cast
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According to The Guardian’s linked source, ‘If you see one movie this year’: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey set to storm the box office, The summer’s most anticipated film will raise epic questions about culture wars, classics and the nature of film-making In a plot twist worthy of the ancient bards themselves, the hottest movie of the summer isn’t a superhero flick, or an alien-invasion yarn, or a crinolines-and-bonnets period drama. Instead, it is an adaptation of a nearly 3,000-year-old epic poem, which film-maker Christopher Nolan is releasing as a follow-up to Oppenheimer , his grim, Oscar-winning study of the origins of nuclear war. Nolan, previously director of Memento , the Dark Knight trilogy and Dunkirk , has now turned his attention to the Odyssey, the classical Greek saga that, along with its companion epic the Iliad, is one of the foundational works of western civilisation. Nolan’s adaptation is a big-budget affair, the largest of his career at an estimated $250m , and the director has peopled it with a cast
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