Sex, beds and grisly executions: what Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey changed, invented – and left out
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Christopher Nolan's Odyssey adaptation opened globally to $264.1 million in its debut weekend, the director's largest opening ever. The film, starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, and Zendaya, demonstrated significant commercial appeal for an adaptation of Homer's ancient epic, performing strongly across North America and India.
From missing scenes and characters to a brand new ending, the director has taken some artistic liberties with Homer’s epic poem
Turning a 12,000-line poem that takes a day to read aloud into a three-hour film was always going to require some pruning. So it has proved with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which dispenses with a number of scenes and characters from Homer’s ancient Greek epic. The director has also changed the emphasis in some of the story’s most famous episodes and made a few of his own additions. Here we run down the most significant alterations.
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