Nolan Needs Bigger Boats: The Odyssey Just Got Wilder
Meanwhile, the real drama is happening at Cannes, where A24 just dropped $17 million on Jordan Firstman's Club Kid after what Variety called a "heated bidding war.
Nolan Needs Bigger Boats: The Odyssey Just Got Wilder
Christopher Nolan casually dropped on *60 Minutes* that his upcoming *The Odyssey* adaptation is "the most extreme version" of the story he could make, and honestly, we should have seen this coming. The man who gave us spinning hallways in *Inception* and backwards time in *Tenet* is tackling Homer's epic about a guy trying to get home for ten years while fighting sea monsters and gods. Of course he's going full Nolan on it.
"I think we pushed pretty hard on this one and maybe found some limits," he said, which in Nolan-speak probably means we're getting IMAX cyclops battles and non-linear sirens. The director has never met a straightforward story he couldn't complicate beautifully, and *The Odyssey* already comes pre-loaded with time jumps, parallel narratives, and reality-bending mythology.
Meanwhile, the real drama is happening at Cannes, where A24 just dropped $17 million on Jordan Firstman's *Club Kid* after what Variety called a "heated bidding war." Seventeen million for a comedy-drama is serious money, especially when streamers are allegedly cutting back. But A24 knows what they're doing – they've turned indie darlings into cultural phenomena before.
And can we talk about *Euphoria* finally answering the Rue question? Episode six apparently reveals whether Zendaya's character is still alive, which feels like the kind of information that should have been sorted by now. The show's been dragging this storyline longer than Odysseus took to get home.
The Verdict: Nolan doing *The Odyssey* sounds like the most beautifully overwrought three hours cinema will give us this decade. I'm here for it.
