Next year, the long-awaited film, Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” starring Matt Damon and a host of famous stars, will hit the screen. Given Nolan’s peerless pedigree of epic films, this promises to be ... well ... epic! I can barely wait to see it because—aside from the director and stars—it’s based on, arguably, the greatest epic of all time: Homer’s “Odyssey.”
Film has a soundtrack, special effects, brilliant actors, and a host of wonderful contrivances that enable the director to enthrall and literally take audiences’ breath away. That is what epic does; it recreates the sublime, and we stand in awe of it. Director Peter Jackson did it with “The Lord of the Rings.” Can Nolan do it with “The Odyssey”?
