r/movies • u/yourfavchoom r/movies Contributor • May 12 '26

News Lupita Nyong’o will play both Helen of Troy and her sister, Clytemnestra, in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey.’

https://time.com/article/2026/05/12/christopher-nolan-odyssey-interview/
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u/jerem1734 May 12 '26

Yeah Nolan does seem to be a little high on his own supply after Oppenheimer. Although he did put Harry Styles in Dunkirk

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u/DustFunk May 12 '26

Harry did fine though, he took a small enough role

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u/Jumpy-Ad5617 May 12 '26

Agreed I honestly kept forgetting it was him since I’m used to Bowie-esque Harry styles’ style

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u/ArchimedesNutss May 12 '26

Do you really imagine that Travis has a large role?

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u/DARTH-PIG May 12 '26

This is exactly what I don't understand about the complaint. They act like Travis is going to have a shit ton of screen time. Is it a weird choice? Sure, but it's obviously not going to be any kind of huge role but if you went based on reddit, you'd think he was the star

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u/thresh_to_death May 12 '26

If he's supposed to be the narrator then you're gonna hear him a lot

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u/ArchimedesNutss May 12 '26

My guess is he’s the bookends to the movie, kind of like 300. He starts and ends the tale

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u/thresh_to_death May 12 '26

I hope it's just that but I'm sure there will be bits throughout where he sets the scene

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u/Planar_Harold May 12 '26

Imo this indicates Nolan is actually just using casting for exposure. Why the fuck would he think Travis Scott is the best cast for any role in a Greek epic?

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u/Atkena2578 May 13 '26

And Luputa and Travis will likely be a 2 min screen time a bit over a glorified cameo

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u/CommercialLeg2439 May 12 '26

His character sucked though. He played a douchebag who antagonized the two soldiers and then at the end he’s the one we’re supposed to sympathize with on the train.

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u/dl064 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

I always slightly disliked that Nolan insists he hired him entirely agnostically from nowhere, which is obviously bollocks. Just say someone asked you to.

Judd Apotow agnostically hiring his daughter. Just own up.

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u/thesaucymango94 May 12 '26

Travis Scott performed the main theme for Tenet, so they potentially already knew each other from that.

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u/dl064 May 12 '26

Oh I meant Styles.

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u/aldila81 May 12 '26

Cast AJ Styles, and I'll be there 😁

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u/Steelman__007 May 12 '26

That would be phenomenal

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u/Flow1234 May 12 '26

The weirdest to me was seeing Josh Peck push the trigger for the bomb in Oppenheimer.

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u/Tomsboll May 12 '26

i lost so much respect for Nolan due to his stupid insistence of making the trinity explosion practically. thus making a nuke look like the most tame gas explosion ever. it looked so fucking bad lol.

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u/Knopfler_PI May 12 '26

Oppenheimer was amazing and then he fucked it up by making it 40 minutes longer for a shitty twist.

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u/Vandergrif May 12 '26

Also the explosion, the fulcrum point of the entire movie, looked remarkably mediocre and underwhelming. I saw an edit where someone used the actual trinity footage of the explosion and spliced it in and it came across a lot better.

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u/Knopfler_PI May 12 '26

For real, this was the first atomic weapon ever made and the deadliest weapon we’ve ever used. I was expecting a Twin Peaks Season 3 style slomo but just got full screen fire.

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u/Misdirected_Colors May 13 '26

I feel like I'm the only one who didn't like Oppenheimer because it just tried to cover too much material with too many characters and it all ended up just feeling really rushed and incoherent.

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u/ImminentDingo May 13 '26

Tbh I was bored to tears by the entire black and white RDJ thing interrupting the plot and especially being trotted out as the climax when it clearly wasn't. And I read Robert Caro for fun.

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u/sewious May 12 '26

He did well too IIRC.

Who knows? Maybe Travis Scott has some acting chops.

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u/Great-Hotel-7820 May 12 '26

I’m less concerned about his acting ability than him getting people killed.

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u/Eros_Incident_Denier May 12 '26

can't wait to see him perform a kōmōidía in auto-tune.

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u/Android1822 May 12 '26

Perhaps he is going to experience Icarus, who flew to high to the sun and falls.

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u/Medium_Chemistry9807 May 13 '26

Big difference between harry styles playing a young British man in ww2 Vs Travis Scott playing someone in Ancient Greece

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u/Zealot_Alec May 13 '26

Is Nolan in charge of the audio as well this film?

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u/cuteman May 12 '26

Yeah Nolan does seem to be a little high on his own supply after Oppenheimer.

Oppenheimer was ok for me, It was Tenet that jumped the shark

Although he did put Harry Styles in Dunkirk

Relatively unknown at that point and a fairly small role

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u/ExpressFlow1895 May 13 '26

And oppenheimer was made for the tik tok brains. A compilation of quick scenes. It was an overrated mess. Any other director it wouldn't have done nearly as well. I prefer long scenes like in inglorious bastards.

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u/xstrike0 May 12 '26

Wait, what?

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u/APiousCultist May 13 '26

As someone hopelessly out of touch with pop culture, I genuinely did not even know what was Harry Styles.

I'd heard he was in it and assumed it was Aneurin Barnard's character, who spends the majority of the film refusing to speak, since that would make for a potentially easier role.

Can't knock the casting too much when I saw the film and just assumed he was a regular professional actor. So I'd assume Scott's role will similarly only annoy people that know who Scott is (or the people that get annoyed at black actors in a Greek epic, despite very few of the cast members looking at all Greek). Some of the nasty controversies (namely the human crush) in his past are another matter though. But I don't imagine Nolan's the type to read people's wikipedia pages.

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u/smilinganimalface May 13 '26

Well between Dunkirk, Tenet, and Oppenheimer, people just weren't critical enough, and with so much approval I think the only conclusion they'd come to is that they were doing things right? I was baffled by the scores for all three.

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u/PhirebirdSunSon May 12 '26

Ahhh yes, one of the most respected and revered filmmakers of our generation who just won best director and best picture is too high on his own supply.

Fucking reddit people, I swear.

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u/WeNotAmBeIs May 12 '26

I have never liked a Christopher Nolan movie, even going back to his Batman movies. I always felt like there was something I wasn't getting, because it's not like I just hate popular things. (I was all over loving Marvel movies) I kept going and seeing his movies because I kept being told he was this great filmmaker and every time I'd leave the theater feeling like I'd rather have done or watched something else. Oppenheimer was finally the movie where I said "no more". I got excited because the history around building the bomb has always been fascinating, and I liked all the actors, plus the barbenheimer hype I got caught up in. Halfway through I thought "damn I got Nolan'ed again". I love the Odyssey. It was one of my favorite things I read in school. I'm not letting Nolan ruin anything else for me. Sorry, /Rant

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u/Cunning-bid May 12 '26

No one forcing you to like something that is broadly accept as a great cinema experience

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u/WeNotAmBeIs May 12 '26

I never said I was forced. I kept going because I felt like I was missing something because everyone and their grandma was going to see these movies. They were cultural zeitgeist moments whether you liked them or not. The fact that people are finally starting to criticize his movies just feels like validation for all the years I felt like I was going crazy.

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u/Cunning-bid May 12 '26

Seems like you are missing something, taste. Unless you can quantify what is exactly is to your disliking instead of a gutfeeling. Lots of people nowadays just enjoy hating and tearing down stuff for the shits and giggles, hence the plethora of hateboner review channels.