Sir Christopher Nolan almost directed Troy.
The 55-year-old filmmaker will direct a film adaptation of Homer The Odyssey, but Nolan has revealed that he had gone through Greek mythology years earlier with Brad Pitt’s 2004 historical epic before director Wolfgang Petersen ultimately got the job.
Speak with Empire magazine, he said: “Wolfgang had developed it, and when the studio decided not to go ahead with his superhero movie[Batman Vs Superman]he wanted it back. Fair enough.”
“But ultimately it was a world that I really wanted to explore. So it’s been in the back of my mind for a long time,” the TV industry icon added.
He went on to say, “Especially certain images. How I wanted to deal with the Trojan Horse, things like that.”
Nolan added that he was interested in Greek mythology from a young age.
He said: ‘I remember seeing a school play of Ulysses [the Latin variant of Odysseus] when I was five or six years old.”
The dark night filmmaker continued, “The older kids did it. I remember the sirens and him being tied to the mast and stuff like that. But that’s hardly a conscious memory.”
“I think it’s in all of us, actually. And when you start breaking down the text and tweaking it, you find out that all these other films – and all the films I’ve worked on – they all come from The Odyssey,” added Nolan.
Focus his attention The OdysseyNolan said he used “over two million feet of film” on the film.
The Oppenheimer director said, “I’ve been working on it for the past four months. We have the cast playing the crew of Odysseus’ ship on the real waves, in the real places. And yes, it is vast and terrifying and wondrous and benevolent, as circumstances change.”
“We really wanted to capture how difficult those journeys would have been for people. And the leap of faith that was made into an uncharted, unmapped world,” Sir Christopher Nolan concluded.
The Odyssey Also stars Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Mia Goth, Jon Bernthal, Charlize Theron, Anne Hathaway and Elliot Page.
