Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey Is Already Continuing A Decades-Old Career Trend That Began With Memento

Many of the famous filmmaker’s projects chronicle someone returning home.

Other Nolan films with a “journey back home” element areInception,Interstellar, andDunkirk.

Or,Dunkirk’s depiction of the Dunkirk evacuationduring World War II.

So, perhaps Nolan wanted to continue adapting stories.

It seemingly worked withOppenheimer, which won seven Academy Awards, including Nolan’s first Best Director win.

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The Odyssey is director Christopher Nolan’s take on Homer’s iconic Greek epic poem that follows Odysseus’s grueling 10-year journey home from the Trojan War.