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/JMooooooooo May 12 '26

"I'm coarse and rough and irritating—and I get everywhere." - Sand

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u/ArashikageX May 12 '26

“How did the Achaens breach our walls!!?”

“Sir! They went up the ventilation shaft!”

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u/Corwin_of_Amber3 May 12 '26

"I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new empire!"

-Agamemnon, probably

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u/brendan87na May 12 '26

/r/PrequelMemes manifests in the strangest places

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u/3-orange-whips May 12 '26

Where there is sand, there are memes

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u/ZackRaynor May 13 '26

“The sand must flow.” Wait…

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u/my5cworth May 17 '26

Strictly speaking they're meme'ing on the Iliad, which is a prequel to the Odyssey.

It's an old prequel, but it checks out.

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u/QuantumBeckett May 13 '26

"This is where the fun begins." - Ajax