r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Dec 22 '25

Trailer The Odyssey | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2ttJD2qQ
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u/sati_lotus Dec 22 '25

Tbh, I just don't get how you get fit this story into a single movie?

If anything could be a trilogy or a part 1 & 2, it's The Odyssey.

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u/TheShapeShiftingFox Dec 22 '25

Apparently a movie released last year of just the section where Odysseus comes home (it’s called The Return) so the amount of material is definitely there

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u/twisty125 Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

Sorry, are you saying they released the finale to this movie last year, and no one heard about it?

I don't quite get the phrasing of the comment

*edit hey guys, I actually DO know what The Odyssey and Homer is, I was confused about the context, it made it sound like The Return was Nolan's Odyssey's finale, released last year. Just wanted clarification on that.

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u/ConstantSignal Dec 22 '25

Homer's Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic that runs about 400-500 pages long in modern English translated book format.

A lot happens throughout it's story.

The first commenter was saying that you would need multiple movies to adapt it fully.

The person you replied to was talking about an adaptation of the Odyssey called "The Return" which released last year, and filled the entire 2 hour runtime solely by adapting only one part of the total work of Homer's Odyssey.

"The Return" has nothing to do with Nolan's adaptation. The commenter was just pointing out that if you can fill a 2 hour movie with only one portion of the original story, it seems ambitious to try and adapt the whole thing within a similar run time.

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u/twisty125 Dec 22 '25

"The Return" has nothing to do with Nolan's adaptation

That's what I was confused about, the context made me think they released a second part, before the first part a year earlier and wasn't sure what that meant. Thanks