Girls I have seen the cast for Christopher Nolan's Odyssey and he is rapidly dropping out of my top ten list
Tom Holland, Matt Damon, Zendaya...
Why?
I got nothing against Matt Damon or Zendaya in general it's just
Why are they here?
If Tom Holland is Odysseus I will just not watch this movie
@coriander wait he's doing the odyssey? that feels wrong somehow. that feels like sacred territory
like, that's risking doing the "oh cinderella, you mean the disney movie" thing. i'm pretty sure that's why we're not touching gilgamesh
@heatherhorns_lite That's why I've been posting about directors I would like to see do the Odyssey for the past couple hours, cos Christopher Nolan is doing it, yeah
I think the concept of an Odyssey movie is fine, it's been done before and it'll be done again, it's a cornerstone story of western culture in a way that deserves to get new audiences into it every now and again
@coriander @heatherhorns_lite I would kill for Robert Eggers to direct this
@coriander @heatherhorns_lite that's fair actually
@wallhackio @heatherhorns_lite But on the flip side, having half the script be direct quotes from various translations would be sick as fuck
@coriander @wallhackio @heatherhorns_lite he could purrobably direct a great excerpt from the story
@aescling @wallhackio @heatherhorns_lite Yeah give me like a two hour movie of just the Polyphemus story or smth
@coriander @wallhackio @heatherhorns_lite this is the only hope fur the nolan film imo
@wallhackio @heatherhorns_lite I had another friend say Eggers but tbh I don't think his style would suit the Odyssey very well, he's much more focused on small-scale stories where he can dig into the psychology of his characters