The Odyssey: Christopher Nolan delivers a spectacle, hits a home run | Hollywood News
6 min readJul 17, 2026 01:55 PM IST All the ado about Homerian characters saying “Mom”, “Dad” and “F..k” can be laid to rest. Those are but minor updates to the late 8th or early 7th century BC epic The Odyssey (emerging from oral traditions going back even further) by writer-director Christopher Nolan. In the film, the gods are largely inconsequential (barring a scowling, floating in-and-out Athena), real heroes are decided by free will, women are firmly – and sometimes fiercely – feminist, and the shifty, cunning Odysseus of the epic is a man defined almost entirely by guilt that befits a quintessential Nolan lead. That said, the latest film by the auteur is nothing but impressive. We know about the shot-entirely-in-IMAX ambition, and the massive $250 million budget. However, Nolan employs it in the service of a story that never grows old, and has never seemed as modern, in both its pursuit of home and the transience of it. The parallel, weaving narratives of the epic, comprising 24 poems in all, suit him well, …
