Christopher Nolan Jokes ‘Batman Begins’ Was “Comfort Prize”
After 20 years, Christopher Nolan is lastly getting his historic Greek cinematic second along with his upcoming adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey.
The 2x Oscar winner not too long ago joked that his directing gig on Batman Begins was a “comfort prize” after a shuffling of tasks ended up with director Wolfgang Petersen returning to Troy after his Batman vs. Superman was scrapped at Warner Bros., just for the studio to present Nolan reins to the Darkish Knight.
“I used to be initially employed by Warner Bros. to direct Troy,” he advised Empire. “Wolfgang had developed it, and so when the studio determined to not proceed along with his superhero film [Batman vs. Superman], he needed [Troy] again.”
Nolan continued, “On the finish of the day, it was a world that I used to be very to discover. So it’s been in the back of my thoughts for a really very long time. Sure photographs, notably. How I needed to deal with the Malicious program, issues like that.”
After transferring on from Warner Bros. along with his twelfth movie Oppenheimer (2023), successful seven Oscars and surpassing $975M globally for Common, Nolan introduced The Odyssey has his subsequent collaboration with the studio final December.
Matt Damon as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’
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Nolan advised Empire, “As a filmmaker, you’re on the lookout for gaps in cinematic tradition, issues that haven’t been carried out earlier than. And what I noticed is that every one of this nice mythological cinematic work that I had grown up with—Ray Harryhausen films and different issues—I’d by no means seen that carried out with the form of weight and credibility that an A-budget and an enormous Hollywood, IMAX manufacturing may do.”
Premiering July 17, 2026 in IMAX, The Odyssey stars Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Elliot Web page, Himesh Patel, Invoice Irwin, Samantha Morton, Jesse Garcia, Will Yun Lee, Rafi Gavron, Shiloh Fernandez, Mia Goth and extra.
