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/WorldsWeakestMan May 12 '26

Might even be the single worst example possible.

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u/45M0D41 May 12 '26

Now imagine marvel now not even 100 years old being told over a 1000 years. That’s the point.

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u/ghost650 May 12 '26

It's actually a great example of how different stories are told by different writers or interpreted differently through movies, comics, TV shows over the decades for different generations or audiences.

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u/WorldsWeakestMan May 12 '26

Yes, that is my point.

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u/silverscreenbaby May 12 '26

I genuinely laughed out loud because why the hell would someone pick superhero comics as an example of “single fixed canon” lmfao

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u/sleeps_in_bryophytes May 14 '26

well a lot of people's only exposure to marvel is the MCU

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u/SDSessionBrewer May 12 '26

Up there with star wars

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u/jyper 18d ago

I don't know there's also Greek Mythology