Christopher Nolan is doing THE ODYSSEY: Matt Damon is Odysseus

I hope he does it well. I’m so looking forward to this.

Odysshey

Odyssheus

Will Matt have any nude or nearly nude scenes?

Anne Hathaway - Penelope

Lupita Nyongo - Calypso?

Zendaya - Circe?

Charlize Theron - Athena? (great choice if so)

Robert Pattinson - Antinous?

Matt Damon? It'll suck.

This could be good

Shing for me O Mushe

I’m feeling rage at the Damon casting.

Nolan is such a pretentious twat.

The Damon casting makes sense now. Nolan likes to cast a fair haired actor who looks somewhat like himself. He would of course see Odysseus as his avatar.

[quote] He would of course see Odysseus as his avatar.

James Cameron made Avatar!

Isn't Matt a little old for Odysseus? Why not Chris Hemsworth?

Because Nolan likes Matt Damon and has worked with him in two films already.

I think I'm done with him after Oppenheimer. It's clear he has bad judgement and there's no one around to rein him in. Expect this movie to be 3.5 hours long.

Holland will play a new character, Fukmyassus.

Just Jared.

Lupita would probably be Circe and Zendaya Calypso. Circe needs gravitas; Calypso's just horny.

Please please not Matt Damon. I always pictured Odysseus as tall muscular and swarthy.

Who will play the dying dog?

R19 Shawn Mendes

Matt Damon is way too old for this.

Lizsha as Shirshee:

“Here drink thish Odyssheeush, it’ll knock your shandalsh off!””

Nolan is a talented director so I don't see how it could be bad.

That is one good picture of Nolan. He rarely looks that good in pix.

Damon as Odysseus is silly. I've read The Odyssey. I've studied the Odyssey. Damon is no Odysseus.

Russell Crowe 20 years ago would have been what I pictured. The only two actors who I can even think of who would remotely fit the part are, oddly enough, black men: Idris Elba and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

No other actors 40-50 years old really stand out for this type of role.

^^^ don't get me wrong, I'm not pushing for casting black men for Odysseus, merely that they have the bearing and gravitas to play the role, as Crowe did.

Where does it say that Matt Damon is playing Odysseus?

I’m so glad Chris is willing to give this inconsequential tale “The Nolan Treatment” so it’ll go from insignificance to a truly great story.

It’s so good of him to rescue such little-known folk tales.

He is the star of the movie.

Matt Damon's old ass as Odysseus? WTF

Is Damon’s ass now flat?

Ryan Gosling could be Odysseus.

I hope they make Matt Damon wear a caftan!!

In the pathway of the sun,

In the footsteps of the breeze,

Where the world and sky are one,

He shall ride the silver seas,

He shall cut the glittering wave.

I shall sit at home, and rock;

Rise, to heed a neighbor's knock;

Brew my tea, and snip my thread;

Bleach the linen for my bed.

They will call him brave.

Nolan will title it “Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.”

I finally wanted to dispel the myth that all ancient Greeks were FAGS. Admittedly it'll be difficult with Tom Holland on set.

Guys, I think I'm missing part of my costume for this - I got the collar and sandals, but where's the rest?

[quote]Expect this movie to be 3.5 hours long.

More like 4 hours. And he'll throw a fit if anyone tries to trim it down.

I wonder if he knows about John Huston's film of the Bible that was a huge flop.

God Matt Damon is such an uninteresting choice for this. Why?

Is this going to be a sword and sandal epic? Hard pass.

Christopher Nolan + Matt Damon in their interpretation of The Odyssey? I would rather clean under the refigerator

Why not add Leo diCaprio to the mix? The three of these potato-faced hacks seem to be morphing into the same blob.

[Quote] Is this going to be a sword and sandal epic?

No, Rose, it’s a story about two interior designers who drive across America.

Casting Timmy as Achilles would seem to be a mistake.

Nice A I fantasy foto of Nolan.

R41 I mean you joke but the Cohen bros adapted it to depression era America, James Joyce did it to Edwardian Dublin. The general story of the Odyssey can be adapted in pretty much any setting.

Matt Damon is the least interesting major actor of his generation. He is an excellent networker, I’ll give him that.

This role should have gone to someone actually talented like Christian Bale.

While that is an excellent headshot of Nolan today, it’s fairly common knowledge that as a young man he was quite beautiful and resembled Tom Hardy (whom he cast three times)

Matt Damon? This must be Odyssey the Senior Years.

Christopher Nolan is handsome.

The devil works hard but Christopher Nolan’s cult works harder

I think I'm going to Myssathis.

It's going to be Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, and it's going to be a critics' darling but really a lifeless suckfest.

I wish someone would try to bring Mycenaean Greece to the big screen as authentically as possible. I'm pretty sure it's not going to be this movie, though.

[quote]t’s a story about two interior designers who drive across America

I'd watch that.

Myshenean Greeshe.

Lizsha, die already, you old drunken cunt!

I loved Troy, which was Mycenean. Altho Achilles needed anger management training.

The first lines of The Iliad were about the rage of Achilles, so yes he was supposed to be angry.

Sing, Goddess, sing of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus

that murderous anger which condemned Achaeans

to countless agonies and threw many warrior souls

deep into Hades, leaving their dead bodies

carrion food for dogs and birds

all in fulfilment of the will of Zeus.

Uh, guys? I seem to be in a lot of scenes, but I don't have any lines?

I can honestly see Holland doing OK with Telemachus. He mostly just has to travel round looking wide eyed and inexperienced at the world asking a bunch of older better actors questions about his dad, form a bromance with Peisistratus, then kill a bunch of guys trying to fuck his mum.

Jesus Christ, another fucking movie with fucking Zendaya.

Did Zendaya get the part because she's fucking Holland or did Holland get the part because he's fucking Zendaya?

I’m playing Prius Maximus—I’m slow in the beginning but have range.

I’m playing Priapus Minimus in the movie version of the Aeneid.

What's your refractory period, R61?

The Franco Rossi 1968 adaptation is by far the best with the hottest Odysseus.

R58 I don't know if we're ready for angry!Tom. Let's still to adorable!Tom and gettingfucked!Tom.

If someone had just been giving Paris the D that he needed, the Iliad would have turned out very differently.

Tom has an angry-looking face. He seems genuinely nice though.

Bekim Fehmiu was so hot! How can pasty Matt Damon ever live up to this?

Will they include the hanging of the unfaithful maids, which even the 1968 version left out, which is otherwise graphic.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is the choice for Odysseus!

The 1968 Telemachus was a gorgeous twink.

I rise to the occasion quite frequently, r63.

Is there something for Timmo?

[quote] Is there something for Timmo?

Helen (of Troy fame).

[quote] Damon as Odysseus is silly. I've read The Odyssey. I've studied the Odyssey.

Then you certainly know that Odysseus is supposed to be middle aged, broad shouldered, not tall, and very intelligent.

Damon is middle aged, broad shouldered, 5'10", and a former Harvard student.

Odysseys is supposed to toggle between a wretched old beggar and a muscular man in his mid 40s.

Damon’s not Greek though! He looks Scandinavian!

Blond Odysseus is as silly as Greek warriors with Scottish accents in Troy.

Bekim was perfect.

I played a Spaniard.

He doesn’t gave to be blond in the movie.

Damon is in his mid-fifties. Odysseus is 40ish.

They will cast a trans woman of color and call it Odylicious.

[quote] 40ish

That’sh the number of pillsh Mama took in a week!

There were absolutely blonds in ancient Greek poetry.

Odysseus was not one, but there's no reason why Damon would have to be blond for this movie.

[quote] Most people in ancient Greece had dark hair and, as a result of this, the Greeks found blond hair immensely fascinating.In the Homeric epics, Menelaus the king of the Spartans is, together with some other Achaean leaders, portrayed as blond. Other blond characters in the Homeric poems are Peleus, Achilles, Meleager, Agamede, and Rhadamanthys. Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, was often described as golden-haired and portrayed with this color hair in art. Aphrodite's master epithet in the Homeric epics is χρυσέη (khruséē), which means "golden". The traces of hair color on Greek korai probably reflect the colors the artists saw in natural hair; these colors include a broad diversity of shades of blond, red and brown. The minority of statues with blond hair range from strawberry blond up to platinum blond

Alexander the Great was blond. He also had heterochromia - one blue eye and one brown eye.

And who did Oliver Stone cast? A dark Irish.

[quote] Alexander the Great was blond.

He was also a FAG!

Damon swarthy would not work. Sorry. I was turned gay by watching Bekim Fehmiu as a kid, so I am biased .

Should they have cast Henry Cavill?

I think Nolan wants his star to act.

Dibs on Penelope.

[quote] I think Nolan wants his star to act.

Henry could’ve been convincing as the woidwn Trojan horse.

Bekim

I want to see the great Artemis Pebdani as Circe.

Do you think Matt has the skill to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for this role?

I hope Zendaya is cast as the 7th maid from left.

The Honda Odyssey, a car advert by Christopher Nolan.

Starring Matt Damon as Driver.

Tom Holland as Passenger.

Zendaya as Hitchhiker.

[quote] Starring Matt Damon as Driver.

Did he break up with the Mini Driver?

Honestly I think this dude peaked a while ago. He did get that knighthood.

Why not Pedro Pascal for Odysseus? A natural.

Timmy and Holland can have a slapping, hair-pulling match to see who is the better boy.

Pedro Pascal would have been very good.

Henry Cavill would have been a good Odysseus, as he is good at playing someone whom “stuff happens to” - a stoic.

But it was always going to be a blond. God knows Nolan will figure out some way to get a scarf on Odysseus as well.

That being said… Daniel Craig a couple of years ago would have been perfect.

Anything with Matt Damon is automatically a B movie. He’s so wooden and dull.