Christopher Nolan is doing THE ODYSSEY: Matt Damon is Odysseus

I hope he does it well. I’m so looking forward to this.

Odysshey

Odyssheus

Will Matt have any nude or nearly nude scenes?

Anne Hathaway - Penelope

Lupita Nyongo - Calypso?

Zendaya - Circe?

Charlize Theron - Athena? (great choice if so)

Robert Pattinson - Antinous?

Matt Damon? It'll suck.

This could be good

Shing for me O Mushe

I’m feeling rage at the Damon casting.

Nolan is such a pretentious twat.

The Damon casting makes sense now. Nolan likes to cast a fair haired actor who looks somewhat like himself. He would of course see Odysseus as his avatar.

[quote] He would of course see Odysseus as his avatar.

James Cameron made Avatar!

Isn't Matt a little old for Odysseus? Why not Chris Hemsworth?

Because Nolan likes Matt Damon and has worked with him in two films already.

I think I'm done with him after Oppenheimer. It's clear he has bad judgement and there's no one around to rein him in. Expect this movie to be 3.5 hours long.

Holland will play a new character, Fukmyassus.

Just Jared.

Lupita would probably be Circe and Zendaya Calypso. Circe needs gravitas; Calypso's just horny.

Please please not Matt Damon. I always pictured Odysseus as tall muscular and swarthy.

Who will play the dying dog?

R19 Shawn Mendes

Matt Damon is way too old for this.

Lizsha as Shirshee:

“Here drink thish Odyssheeush, it’ll knock your shandalsh off!””

Nolan is a talented director so I don't see how it could be bad.

That is one good picture of Nolan. He rarely looks that good in pix.

Damon as Odysseus is silly. I've read The Odyssey. I've studied the Odyssey. Damon is no Odysseus.

Russell Crowe 20 years ago would have been what I pictured. The only two actors who I can even think of who would remotely fit the part are, oddly enough, black men: Idris Elba and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

No other actors 40-50 years old really stand out for this type of role.

^^^ don't get me wrong, I'm not pushing for casting black men for Odysseus, merely that they have the bearing and gravitas to play the role, as Crowe did.

Where does it say that Matt Damon is playing Odysseus?

I’m so glad Chris is willing to give this inconsequential tale “The Nolan Treatment” so it’ll go from insignificance to a truly great story.

It’s so good of him to rescue such little-known folk tales.

He is the star of the movie.

Matt Damon's old ass as Odysseus? WTF

Is Damon’s ass now flat?

Ryan Gosling could be Odysseus.

I hope they make Matt Damon wear a caftan!!

In the pathway of the sun,

In the footsteps of the breeze,

Where the world and sky are one,

He shall ride the silver seas,

He shall cut the glittering wave.

I shall sit at home, and rock;

Rise, to heed a neighbor's knock;

Brew my tea, and snip my thread;

Bleach the linen for my bed.

They will call him brave.

Nolan will title it “Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.”

I finally wanted to dispel the myth that all ancient Greeks were FAGS. Admittedly it'll be difficult with Tom Holland on set.

Guys, I think I'm missing part of my costume for this - I got the collar and sandals, but where's the rest?

[quote]Expect this movie to be 3.5 hours long.

More like 4 hours. And he'll throw a fit if anyone tries to trim it down.

I wonder if he knows about John Huston's film of the Bible that was a huge flop.

God Matt Damon is such an uninteresting choice for this. Why?

Is this going to be a sword and sandal epic? Hard pass.

Christopher Nolan + Matt Damon in their interpretation of The Odyssey? I would rather clean under the refigerator

Why not add Leo diCaprio to the mix? The three of these potato-faced hacks seem to be morphing into the same blob.

[Quote] Is this going to be a sword and sandal epic?

No, Rose, it’s a story about two interior designers who drive across America.

Casting Timmy as Achilles would seem to be a mistake.

Nice A I fantasy foto of Nolan.

R41 I mean you joke but the Cohen bros adapted it to depression era America, James Joyce did it to Edwardian Dublin. The general story of the Odyssey can be adapted in pretty much any setting.

Matt Damon is the least interesting major actor of his generation. He is an excellent networker, I’ll give him that.

This role should have gone to someone actually talented like Christian Bale.

While that is an excellent headshot of Nolan today, it’s fairly common knowledge that as a young man he was quite beautiful and resembled Tom Hardy (whom he cast three times)

Matt Damon? This must be Odyssey the Senior Years.

Christopher Nolan is handsome.

The devil works hard but Christopher Nolan’s cult works harder

I think I'm going to Myssathis.

It's going to be Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, and it's going to be a critics' darling but really a lifeless suckfest.

I wish someone would try to bring Mycenaean Greece to the big screen as authentically as possible. I'm pretty sure it's not going to be this movie, though.

[quote]t’s a story about two interior designers who drive across America

I'd watch that.

Myshenean Greeshe.

Lizsha, die already, you old drunken cunt!

I loved Troy, which was Mycenean. Altho Achilles needed anger management training.

The first lines of The Iliad were about the rage of Achilles, so yes he was supposed to be angry.

Sing, Goddess, sing of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus

that murderous anger which condemned Achaeans

to countless agonies and threw many warrior souls

deep into Hades, leaving their dead bodies

carrion food for dogs and birds

all in fulfilment of the will of Zeus.

Uh, guys? I seem to be in a lot of scenes, but I don't have any lines?

I can honestly see Holland doing OK with Telemachus. He mostly just has to travel round looking wide eyed and inexperienced at the world asking a bunch of older better actors questions about his dad, form a bromance with Peisistratus, then kill a bunch of guys trying to fuck his mum.

Jesus Christ, another fucking movie with fucking Zendaya.

Did Zendaya get the part because she's fucking Holland or did Holland get the part because he's fucking Zendaya?

I’m playing Prius Maximus—I’m slow in the beginning but have range.

I’m playing Priapus Minimus in the movie version of the Aeneid.

What's your refractory period, R61?

The Franco Rossi 1968 adaptation is by far the best with the hottest Odysseus.

R58 I don't know if we're ready for angry!Tom. Let's still to adorable!Tom and gettingfucked!Tom.

If someone had just been giving Paris the D that he needed, the Iliad would have turned out very differently.

Tom has an angry-looking face. He seems genuinely nice though.

Bekim Fehmiu was so hot! How can pasty Matt Damon ever live up to this?

Will they include the hanging of the unfaithful maids, which even the 1968 version left out, which is otherwise graphic.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is the choice for Odysseus!

The 1968 Telemachus was a gorgeous twink.

I rise to the occasion quite frequently, r63.

Is there something for Timmo?

[quote] Is there something for Timmo?

Helen (of Troy fame).

[quote] Damon as Odysseus is silly. I've read The Odyssey. I've studied the Odyssey.

Then you certainly know that Odysseus is supposed to be middle aged, broad shouldered, not tall, and very intelligent.

Damon is middle aged, broad shouldered, 5'10", and a former Harvard student.

Odysseys is supposed to toggle between a wretched old beggar and a muscular man in his mid 40s.

Damon’s not Greek though! He looks Scandinavian!

Blond Odysseus is as silly as Greek warriors with Scottish accents in Troy.

Bekim was perfect.

I played a Spaniard.

He doesn’t gave to be blond in the movie.

Damon is in his mid-fifties. Odysseus is 40ish.

They will cast a trans woman of color and call it Odylicious.

[quote] 40ish

That’sh the number of pillsh Mama took in a week!

There were absolutely blonds in ancient Greek poetry.

Odysseus was not one, but there's no reason why Damon would have to be blond for this movie.

[quote] Most people in ancient Greece had dark hair and, as a result of this, the Greeks found blond hair immensely fascinating.In the Homeric epics, Menelaus the king of the Spartans is, together with some other Achaean leaders, portrayed as blond. Other blond characters in the Homeric poems are Peleus, Achilles, Meleager, Agamede, and Rhadamanthys. Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, was often described as golden-haired and portrayed with this color hair in art. Aphrodite's master epithet in the Homeric epics is χρυσέη (khruséē), which means "golden". The traces of hair color on Greek korai probably reflect the colors the artists saw in natural hair; these colors include a broad diversity of shades of blond, red and brown. The minority of statues with blond hair range from strawberry blond up to platinum blond

Alexander the Great was blond. He also had heterochromia - one blue eye and one brown eye.

And who did Oliver Stone cast? A dark Irish.

[quote] Alexander the Great was blond.

He was also a FAG!

Damon swarthy would not work. Sorry. I was turned gay by watching Bekim Fehmiu as a kid, so I am biased .

Should they have cast Henry Cavill?

I think Nolan wants his star to act.

Dibs on Penelope.

[quote] I think Nolan wants his star to act.

Henry could’ve been convincing as the woidwn Trojan horse.

Bekim

I want to see the great Artemis Pebdani as Circe.

Do you think Matt has the skill to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for this role?

I hope Zendaya is cast as the 7th maid from left.

The Honda Odyssey, a car advert by Christopher Nolan.

Starring Matt Damon as Driver.

Tom Holland as Passenger.

Zendaya as Hitchhiker.

[quote] Starring Matt Damon as Driver.

Did he break up with the Mini Driver?

Honestly I think this dude peaked a while ago. He did get that knighthood.

Why not Pedro Pascal for Odysseus? A natural.

Timmy and Holland can have a slapping, hair-pulling match to see who is the better boy.

Pedro Pascal would have been very good.

Henry Cavill would have been a good Odysseus, as he is good at playing someone whom “stuff happens to” - a stoic.

But it was always going to be a blond. God knows Nolan will figure out some way to get a scarf on Odysseus as well.

That being said… Daniel Craig a couple of years ago would have been perfect.

Anything with Matt Damon is automatically a B movie. He’s so wooden and dull.

Instead of playing Odysseus, Matt Damon should play Tiresias.

Palasch Athena

[quote] Palasch Athena

Is that the role Matt should play?

The bloated, incoherent "epic" should be right up his alley.

[quote] The bloated, incoherent "epic" should be right up his alley.

[quote] "She doesn't want to see any movies that I'm in that might be good. She just likes to give me shit," said Damon, Yahoo Life previously reported. "My daughter said, 'Hey remember that movie you did, The Wall?' I said, 'It was called The Great Wall.' She goes, 'Dad, there was nothing great about that movie.' She keeps my feet firmly on the ground."

I loved the Odessey, so I'll see this.

Did anyone read "The Adventures of Ulysses" before The Odyssey? It was sort of the Odyssey dumbed down for a younger audience.

Who plays Scylla and Charybdis?

R37 - Agreed - it has to be a long film. I could see this be cut up into 2 or 3 separate films in order to do it justice.

I don't see how you can tell this story in 2 or 2.5 hours without leaving a lot of shit out and pissing off a lot of people in the process.

Now that I think about it - it makes sense to cut up into separate films in sequential years just to show the length of time and the arduous journey Odysseus goes through. That's the whole point of the Odyssey.

It can be very entertaining - I was enthralled with the original Clash of the Titans back in 1981.

I am....

Calypso!

Is this the story with Grendel's mom as the main antagonist?

^^No, Rose. That's The Epic of Gilgamesh.

Hansel and Grendel?

Gilgamess.

Matt Damon just looks too contemporary. I like him as an actor well enough. His recent movie, Sweetwater (?) on Roku was good.

He is a good actor, but I really believe he would be seriously miscast as Odysseus.

He should play Hera!

Zendaya is going to be cast in this somehow - I can feel it. And some obligatory English male actor.

Few to no Greeks though - although I can see Nia Vardalos writing cards and letters fervently to Nolan and the studios as I type.

[quote] Zendaya is going to be cast in this somehow - I can feel it. And some obligatory English male actor.

Is that because the OP’s article indicated:

[quote] As previously announced, Nolan’s latest will star Matt Damon, Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya,

[quote] [R37] - Agreed - it has to be a long film. I could see this be cut up into 2 or 3 separate films in order to do it justice.

I will not see it if it is more than one movie. I am not a Christopher Nolan fan. I have only enjoyed The Dark Knight movies. I was underwhelmed by "Inception" and unwisely gave him another shot with "Interstellar." I haven't seen any of his movies since.

R123 Nooo! She'll laugh at my lack of costume! And, other things ...

The role Robert Pattinson took was originally going to be played by Austin Butler, which means it is probably Antinous (Butler wouldn’t have been cast as Poseidon or Hades)

Also I am going to assume that Butler was probably the first choice (Nolan loved Dune) but opted for American Psycho instead

Matt Damon, as wise King Odysseus, is traveling BACKWARDS in TIME!

Anne Hathaway, as Penelope, is traveling FORWADS in TIME!

Michael Caine, in an expository cameo, is drinking tea!

Four wads blown over Helen.

Assuming Michael Caine is still ambulatory, he will obviously be cast as Tiresias.

This better have some gay shit in it, I'll tell you that much. It's the only thing that'll help me get past the horrible casting.

On the other hand, it's Nolan, so of fucking course it'll be aggressively hetero.

R132 except when they’re gay as hell

[quote]Assuming Michael Caine is still ambulatory, he will obviously be cast as Tiresias.

I can do this one sitting down, can't I?

Agree with posters upthread that Bale would have made a much better Odysseus than Damon. Nolan seems to have soured on him, they haven't worked together since the last Batman film 13 years ago, and he's worked with just about everyone else in Hollywood since.

He's working with Hathaway in a prominent role, for a third time. I wonder if she won't work with Bale, who allegedly toyed with her and dumped her during the last Batman filming. Or if Nolan has clearly taken her side in that situation.

I could be wrong but it sounds like it could be long. I only enjoy long movies at home.

Will location film in Italy and Morocco

The most white bread mother fucker in the room is playing Odysseus?

[quote]Alexander the Great was blond. He also had heterochromia - one blue eye and one brown eye.

And I only cared about his brown eye.

Zendaya can be Circe.

Hades?

This is going to be a disaster, and every fucking critic will act like this humorless hack is the savior of cinema. 🤮🤮🤮

A disaster!

This is Finnicwashing a Mediterranean cultural figure.

[quote] Finnicwashing

?

I strongly support Finnickwashing

What’s “ Finnickwashing”, precious? What’s “Finnickwashing”?

r24 You're ridiculous.

R147 Guy like that needs to be kept clean.

Guys, c'mon! Kneepads are NOT part of a traditional Greek costume!

The Cyclops?

Jesus, this is going to suck hard.

This sounds like Around the World in 80 Days.

I'm free.

Or CaNtinflas as the case maybe. Just dig him up.

Jon Bernthal has now been cast.

The movie will shoot in Sicily on an island scholars believe is referenced to in the Odyssey

Favignana

This looks better than where they set the White Lotus

FAviGnana?

The walls of Troy

Sailor: What is an odyssey?

Odysseus: It is the story of a long trip that is written about by the only survivor.

Sailor: Oh......wait....what?

THAT is interesting

Someone who can pass for Greek!

Rumor that an actor may have dropped out, maybe Tom Holland

This will be one of the most boring movies ever made I guarantee it

R165 He saw the casting call for large cocks and got scared.

It will be a major hit because Zendaya is in it.

Nolan's hubris knows no limits.

Apparently it was an unconfirmed rumor that Mia Goth was being added which was now debunked

Matt Damon as Odysseus? Horrible miscasting.

[quote] Anything with Matt Damon is automatically a B movie. He’s so wooden and dull.

I never fail to be amazed by how dull he is an actor and all His acting nominations. He has that Hugh Jackman-like quality of charming the press, so they give good reviews to everything he does.

The Cyclops will be portrayed by a gigantic puppet

Shyclopsh

Oh, r60, you naif. 🧔 🙈 🙉 🙊

For r94's photo, the only contemporary actor I can see is Paul Mescal, but not after Gladiator: 2.

Boo! I wanted to Oscar Isaac in this role. Damon is a snooze!

BTW, I love it when Liza shows up on random thread, slurring her words and offering drinks or drugs

[quote] Boo! I wanted to Oscar Isaac in this role.

That would work

The horse!

[quote]I love it when Liza shows up on random thread

Will she be playing Helen?

[quote] The horse!

Has Sarah Jessica Parker worked with Nolan before?

R168: Speak for yourself.

More photos

This appears to be the first depiction of the Trojan horse rearing on its hind legs

Goddamn, CN is gorgeous.

You need to get laid, r184

Lmao! Why R185? He's a good looking man.

It’s the spectrum eyes. Some people find them irresistible and others find them terrifying

See also

Mia Goth!

R187, "CN" isn't "Cillian Murphy."

This is going to be epic

I wonder who is Nausicaa. Zendaya and Mia Goth strike me as slightly too old. Zendaya is probably Athena.

Z. would require contacts, as Athena is famously described as "gray-eyed."

I can't believe there's no role yet for Timothée Chalamet, aspirant to greatness!

I believe Athena only interacts with mortals in the guise of other humans in the poem

No ChatGPT knows better

No, Athena does not always appear to mortals under the guise of another mortal in The Odyssey, though she frequently does. She often disguises herself as various people, such as Mentor (Odysseus’ old friend), Mentes (a Taphian chieftain), and a shepherd, among others. However, there are instances where she appears in her divine form, particularly to Odysseus.

For example, near the end of the epic, when Athena intervenes in the battle between Odysseus and the suitors’ families, she appears as herself. Additionally, in Book 13, when Odysseus arrives in Ithaca and does not recognize his homeland, she first appears in disguise but soon reveals her true identity to him.

So while Athena primarily interacts with mortals in disguise, she does reveal herself as a goddess on occasion, particularly to Odysseus.

It would be great if Zendaya only appeared in the movie in disguise.

Why is Tom Holland in Morocco where they are filming the Troy scenes? Telemachus doesn’t go to Troy.

Damon is too old for Odysseus.

I fear that he will play the old wretched beggar Odysseus and the will CGI him back to string youthful Odysseus. It will be awful.

Christopher Nolan is known for his distaste for CGI and preference for practical effects

I hate CGI reverse aging. It never works.

^strong youthful Odysseus

All the shots of atomic phenomenon in Oppenheimer were practical effects

R196 He's Achilles' tent boy.

I’m reading Emily Wilson’s translation and it is an excellent as its reputation suggests. I am now annoyed at Christopher Nolan for poo-pooing “newer” translations. It implies they are less accurate or catered to modern sensibilities or “woke” but that's not the case at all.

Apparently RDJ was offered Poseidon but had to turn it down because of Avengers

Is Nolan a big girlina?

We will get to see some guy butts?

[quote]Is Nolan a big girlina?

No, straight as an arrow.

Troy is on fire!

No nipple-bearing toga?

Jesus Christ, by the time this is finished Damon will we 55 or 56.

Bennie Safdie is Agammenon and Lupita Nyongo is Clytemnestra!

^^FFS

Gotta get the blacks in mythical ancient Greece, but there wasn't one white resident in Angela "I Thought It Was A Given" Bassett's queendom.

Couldn't they have cast Melina Kanakaredes or Jennifer Aniston as Clytemnestra?

Clitemneshtra

Sir Michael Caine? as blind Tiresias

^^^If ever a role called for Laverne Cox.....

Tiresias is a great part!

He had at one time been turned into a woman and had children. Then he was a man again. The queen asked him who got more pleasure out of sex - men or women. He said women.

[quote] Matt Damon Spotted Filming a Battle Scene for 'The Odyssey' in Greece with Director Christopher Nolan

Nolan has cool hair considering his high hairline. I'm jealous

See, here’s the thing. He is ENTIRELY recognizable, which completely takes you out of the scene.

I haven't seen a fake beard like that since The Wild Women of Wongo.

Oscar Isaac wouldn’t have been entirely recognizable.

In what universe would a guy who looks like Matt Damon pass for an ancient Greek?

Lmao R185! I have been properly just recently! I just saw your comment.

They should have taken the money from this stinker and given us another season of KAOS instead.

Nolan is so overrated. I've never wanted to watch any of his movies more than once.