Filmmaker Christopher Nolan follows up his Oscar-winning blockbuster "Oppenheimer" with "The Odyssey," an adaptation of Homer's epic ancient Greek poem. In an interview with Reuters, Nolan discussed how he approached the sweeping story and discovered a way to adapt it from text to screen.
"I enjoy adaptation very much. I enjoy adapting the screenplay for Oppenheimer from a 700 page, very academic book into a movie. Home is, yeah, it's challenging. This is a household waiting for a master. I want you to choose me. But once I sort of figured out that for me, when you look at the text of the poem, it's really incredible payoffs, but the setups that a movie requires aren't there in an epic poem because his audience was familiar with the elements. For us, we have to set that up and everything. And once I sort of started to figure out that, okay, you have to take some liberties with it, you've got to move some things around in order to try and get across the impression that you had from experiencing the poem, that's when things started to gain momentum."
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Filmmaker Christopher Nolan follows up his Oscar-winning blockbuster "Oppenheimer" with "The Odyssey," an adaptation of Homer's epic ancient Greek poem. In an interview with Reuters, Nolan discussed how he approached the sweeping story and discovered a way to adapt it from text to screen.