Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey premieres in New York

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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey held its New York red carpet premiere with stars Zendaya, Anne Hathaway and Matt Damon in attendance. Deadline reports the Universal release, Nolan’s follow-up to Oppenheimer, is tracking for a more than $200 million global opening. Coverage notes the film adapts Homer’s epic poem and follows a year after earlier sellouts of 70 million IMAX showtimes tied to the project. Critics and early reviews quoted in posts give the film strong marks, including a 98 percent Rotten Tomatoes figure cited in coverage. The production has been described in early commentary as a gargantuan project with a roughly $250 million budget and a 75-foot-high IMAX presentation, positioning The Odyssey as a major summer tentpole for Universal.

Simon Pegg

@simonpegg.bsky.social

I've just seen about 40 kids sneak into watch 'The Odyssey' without paying by hiding in a giant wooden coat.

691244d ago

Kat Abughazaleh

@katmabu.bsky.social

I can’t remember a movie I’ve been more excited to see than The Odyssey directed by Christopher Nolan with an all-star cast and the resources it deserves. I feel like someone read my fifth-grade diary.

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Darghil54

Isn't that the new film based on "O Brother Where Art Thou"?

R. Anthony Mahan37

I'm glad Hades II side character Odysseus is getting the film spin-off he deserves.

greenlightening.bsky.social34

Putting Anne Hathaway and Elliot Page in the same film just means you can charge whatever you want for me to see it.

Jeremy Chao16

Having all the worst people losing their mind over it doesn’t hurt.

Steve Streza 🌈15

Don't know what it is about Nolan but he somehow always makes you excited to go to the theater.

Rachel Cohen6

wait when are you guys going to

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Eric Budd4

seeing this with @lsweeneymiran.bsky.social and our oldest child tomorrow in IMAX. quite excited!

Forbes

@forbes.com

A critic for the Arizona Republic gave “The Odyssey” five stars and called Elon Musk’s criticisms of the cast “racist and ugly.”

63944d ago

Emily25

Musk's brand is “racist and ugly.” Being a rabidly sexist Nazi POS is his whole personality. Well, that and being so pathetic that he cheats at video games for clout. Which even his fans gotta admit is a next level sad sack move. He doesn't even cheat believably. He's too lazy to learn how to play

Grizzled Shopkeep13

Well that's just Musk in a nutshell, shitty film criticisms aside

💙🇺🇦 🚫🧊9

why does media even publish what that rich fuk says? hes a racist, lying, criminal ass.

WhatRWeDoingHere9

That kind of sums up his entire shtick.

Anu6

Imagine running rocket companies, electric cars, and a massive echo chamber, only to spend your free time crying online because a trans man was cast as a fictional Greek soldier.

Magnus G. Singleton6

Anti-woke = anti-equality Musk has been racist all of his life.

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OGBobbyJoshson2

Fuck outta here with this “anti-woke” bullshit. The word you’re looking for is bigotry. I’m so tired all the euphemisms created to coddle the worst people in the world.

DiscussingFilm

@discussingfilm.net

‘THE ODYSSEY’ debuts with 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. • Christopher Nolan's highest rated film ever Read our review: bit.ly/OdysseyDF

71944d ago

tomwritesnow.bsky.social38

“But the armor!” they scream on, slowly diminishing into corncobs

Silence Dogoode30

It will get review bombed soon enough by racists who can't fathom a non-white Helen of Troy

Ash Verjee15

I can't believe they didn't get a real monocular actor to play the cyclops. When will Hollywood stop erasing fictional Greek giants' culture?

Gopher & Tuk5

Up to 99% now, with one "rotten" review (which gave it a 6/10)

Populismo de alta precisão econômica5

acho que o @thalesgn.bsky.social vai querere ver esse

asparagusnextleft4

It's three hours long, without a break, in a darkened room with a couple or three hundred strangers. I'll just wait for it to come on the tv, thanks.

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Jesse Hawken24

“Home At Last” by Steely Dan intensifies

Nute23

Funniest possible outcome and honestly? Always a high probability one

Sr. Izzo Chaminé12

Admito que é a primeira vez desde Inception que eu quero ver um filme do Nolan. Não sei se vou gostar. Mas tenho curiosidade o que é mais que ele me gera normalmente.

Barker the Scrunkly8

Turns out Twitter isn't real life and the average moviegoer isn't obsessed with black and trans people like chuds are

King Louie | ΦΒΣ ♒️ 🔜 Charlotte6

As it muthafuckin should. Don't play with Christopher Nolan!

please be nice to patrick5

We have reached new levels of "we're so back"-- in fact the UN is putting together a summit on it

Ernesto López Vallet 🇪🇺4

Pero como puede ser, si todos los youtubers anti-woke me habían dicho que sería una mala película.

Alfie4

I expected this to be good but damn, this is ALL-TIMER good?!

henrique4

quem sabe da próxima vez

sumokirby (Chris)3

WAKE UP EVERYBODY, WOKE IS BACK! WOKE UP!

Amber Sparks

@ambersparks.bsky.social

The idea that Christopher Nolan is a bad director is extremely stupid, sorry. He’s the kind of very good but broadly appealing director that used to be much more common, the kind of director who makes reliably good, interesting movies for adults

75845d ago

Amber Sparks46

If anything I think he’s a kind of David Lean - he means to go big and smart, even in the misfires

Amber Sparks41

(And even if you’re not a fan, The Odyssey is the perfect movie for him to direct! It’s not a subtle story, and has so many themes he does well - epic scenes, repetition, frustration, gods, people who think they’re better than the gods, a guy who just wants his wife back, like come on)

graywyvern15

having read some extremely thick books about oppenheimer & the manhattan project, i was more impressed by his ability to turn them into a comprehensible story than the abstract time-business in his weirder films

Geezer Soze13

The kind of director who considers being entertaining as job #1, even if he does make you think along the way.

The Shitpostman (Il Shitpostino)12

Objectively correct take...we need way more upper-middlebrow movies. (And kudos to you for not using the free speech guy meme!)

Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol8

Nolan's very good at what he does but his movies can feel like he's using a sledgehammer to do needlework.

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Bart Harley Jarvis6

“Bad director” is an objectively wrong thing to say about Nolan. You might not like his movies, but calling him bad at his job is asinine.

rdmacq.bsky.social2

Yes, but he's popular and therefore bad because people need to feel important for liking that which everyone else doesn't.

Lady Emily ☄️

@ladyemily.nebula.tv

Culture war brain poisoning has dudebros out here made about Christopher Nolan and acting like there’s some sort of woke conspiracy that’s responsible for The Odyssey getting good reviews

38144d ago

Lady Emily ☄️303

I’m not complaining, I’m just surprised us woke queers got Christopher Nolan in the divorce

Andy Econo9

King Tory Copaganda Bat Movie Chris Nolan? 😂

Killer Tune 411

I love the idea that these chuds firmly believe they can deter moviegoers from seeing a new Christopher Nolan film.

Platy 🇨🇦1

All this because there happens to be a black woman in the cast 💀

Matt Zoller Seitz

@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social

"Casting actors of many nationalities and ethnicities sends the message that Homer, like Shakespeare, and so many great storytellers from so many countries, belongs to everyone." On The Odyssey and its "controversies." Loved it. A big show, intelligently told. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...

28244d ago

Matt Zoller Seitz61

^ "Nolan's script mixes in bits of The Iliad, The Aeneid, and 20th- and 21st-century translations of The Odyssey, with their own embellishments. The result is a sort of OEU (Odysseus Expanded Universe), minus a post-credits scene where Zeus asks Odysseus to join the Olympus Initiative."

Stella Sacco4

Great piece, Matt. Guess I gotta see it

The Red Circle1

I’m in a film group on another social media platform. I posted about the movie today and some of the the insecure men are reduced to claiming it’s not getting great reviews. Some are just ranting more about “woke” casting done on purpose to create “controversy.” It’s so revealing.

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Cattlin2

I wasn't sure if I was the audience for The Odyssey but this review has me hyped. Probably won't be able to see it for a couple weeks, but still very excited.

Culture Crave 🍿

@culturecrave.co

Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' is projected to open with ~$200M at the global box office ⚔️💰 Would be the largest non-Batman opening of his career (via Deadline)

26745d ago

Razastwart13

Man... This just looks so lame in every clip or screenshot I see of it. I wish I could hate on it more without being confused for a chud

SteveIsDamaged 5

I'm going to start referring to everything I do as "the largest non-batman" version of it in my career.

Lynnbo5

Interesting cause YouTube and Reddit told me it’s a lame gay movie with black people.. God I need to get off the internet, this movie looks crazy cool.

Sebastian Fawkes2

Right-Wingers Who are trying to Boycott the Film seeing This:

Nomadic Champion1

Hold on, $200 million? But the 'go woke, go broke' crowd said it would be a resounding flop.

Mike1

But Instagram tells me it is woke and it will fail?

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Zeo17

This is one of the best examples of MAGA living in a bubble that they created. They have spent the last two months claiming that The Odyssey is going to bomb because there is a Black woman in the movie. They are not smart people. They are nothing more than hateful racists.

Cethan Leahy12

Go woke, go break the bank!

Iesha8

And I’ll be contributing Thursday, Friday, and Saturday! Tickets already loaded

Sebastian Fawkes6

Right-Wingers Who are trying to Boycott the Film seeing This:

winona 🍉🏳️‍⚧️5

if it ends up being true, total chud humiliation and i couldn't be more satisfied with that

jane amber!3

i kind of want this to outgross every non-spider man CBM this year, because it would be very funny

Eduardo Narváez2

Y yo que leí que supuestamente iba a ser un fracaso por el supuesto “casting DEI y woke” de Nolan.

Greg Jericho

@grogsgamut.bsky.social

You can trade on what rotten tomatoes score you think The Odyssey will have. Capitalism at its finest - utterly pointless, creating nothing of value but wealth based on bet on a measure that has no value either. Burn it all to the fricken ground.

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The Odyssey: Rotten Tomatoes score
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93.4%

21445d ago

Andrew Buckwell5

I am fairly sure prediction markets are not pointless. They are literally designed to enable politically powerful people to trade their insider knowledge for money, which they take from the masses. Betting on movie scores is the (pointless) sideshow.

Adam4

well this is just the share market

Daniel Cohen4

And a market that is easily subverted as it is a subjective argument. What a time to be alive … and addicted to gambling.

Roxy Tickle3

@grogsgamut.bsky.social do you know if I’m allowed to sell this image as an NFT because I added the heart react and therefore made it new art?

Anthony Morris2

As a RT-accredited critic, it’s time for me to cash in big!

Jesse Hawken

@jessehawken.bsky.social

It absolutely rocks that all the CHUDs hitched their wagons to the idea that nobody wanted this Woke Odyssey movie and it’s going to be a monster hit, how wrong can you be

23844d ago

Ian Rennie12

And not even woke! Nolan is very much a small c conservative director whose major themes are law and order, family life, and preserving the status quo.

〽️Mike〽️5

Just waiting for the inevitable pivot to ‘it was never woke because ______’ when it’s a success.

Art 4

People forget since it's universally beloved, but these same dipshits tried this same play with Fury Road before it came out.

Jar Jarmusch2

Most of screenings in my area are nearly sold out. Nolan on Monday morning with his 20% first dollar gross deal.

Joshua2

It turns out you have to work very, VERY hard to find Lupita Nyong'o unattractive

therealWokeKong1

It’s literally his highest rated movie of all time. These guys can’t stop losing

Bob Chipman ("MovieBob")

@bobchipman.bsky.social

A thing that "THE ODYSSEY" makes amusingly clear is that Tom Holland is probably a much better but also sufficiently less annoying version of Timothee Chalamet and has just been busy being Spider-Man so nobody thought to check. *(P.S. This is probly also the case for Elliot Page, same movie)

21545d ago

Drew(bacca)24

And unlike Timothee, Holland loves ballet.

andimalloutofbubblegum10

Timothee has been dead to me since being with a Kartrashian.

Josh Goring6

And that's why he's with Zendaya IRL. And also Spider-Man.

kataphrut94.bsky.social4

People keep shitting on Chalamete just because he looks like an effete theatre kid, but he talks like your cousin’s weed dealer. Who cares. Can he act? Can he do his job? Then there you go.

Brendan Payne4

There’s a decade-long age gap between Elliot and Tom (and while Elliot Page might look a decade younger than he is, so does Tom Holland) so I’ll be the judge of that. But, yes, I’ve always felt Tom could play any Timothee Chalamet role tbh.

Nicholas Moore Lives In a Failed State1

I’ve been feeling this for years actually.

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rdmacq.bsky.social14

Timothy Chalamet spend the better part of the last ten years pursuing an Oscar. Tom Holland spend the better part of the last ten years pursuing Zendaya. I think Tom made the better decision all around.

Dana Stevens

@thehighsign.bsky.social

Somehow despite its gargantuan scale, 75-foot-high IMAX image, $250 million budget & stacked cast of A-list stars, Christopher Nolan's Odyssey feels like his most personal project...& maybe, w/ the proviso that I've never been a huge Nolan-head, my favorite movie he's made? slate.com/culture/2026...

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spotted-coach7.bsky.social4

Love me the Batman flics Oppenheimer and Memento which I still think is his best. Cant wait to see this which I haven’t said about a movie in a long time.

Charles Bryan, Part-Time Cat Bed1

Is Nolan becoming our new summer blockbuster guy?

Hudsonette1

Can’t wait to see this.

Matt Novak

@paleofuture.bsky.social

I’m seeing The Odyssey during Trump’s speech tomorrow and was vaguely worried I might miss something important. Glad to see I won’t miss anything that matters.

15544d ago

Matt Novak132

How funny would it be if It Happened during a big televised speech tho

Sorkel5

I'm taking my pet ferret for his yodeling lessons during Trump's speech tomorrow and we're both worried we might miss something important.

May-lee Chai (she/her)3

So they meddled in order to elect him???

Mister Sterling3

So his speech got weirder. So it was dirty black people in Georgia, AND the Chinese who stole the election from Senators Purdue. Loeffler, and him. In 2020! Also, I totally forgot about Kelly Loeffler.

TediZ2

The sweet, sweet odor of desperation.

Scott White2

While you’re at the movies during his speech, you will probably miss the fact that the word “dumb“ is actually spelled with a “b”. Not many people know that you know, but now you do.

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brad2

every day the odds that event x will be when it happens go up slightly

Colin Dickey

@colindickey.com

My general metric for Matt Damon movies is that they’re best if he’s a) in Europe, b) having an identity crisis, and c) killing people. (Talented Mr. Ripley, Bourne Identity.) So The Odyssey should be pretty good?

17244d ago

Colin Dickey31

Ocean’s Eleven is also great and while he’s not killing people he’s still committing crimes while pretending to be someone else and there’s sorta an ersatz “Europe” involved (Paris, the Bellagio), so it’s close enough.