The Greek Mythology Movie Christopher Nolan Almost Directed Before The Odyssey

Christopher Nolan is one of the most popular and roundly respected instructors working in Hollywood today. Not only does he make prestigious epic, such as “Dunkirk”, but his films are also remarkably popular. “Oppenheimer” made nearly a billion dollars and won the best picture in Oscar. Mixing economic success and industry recognition is extremely rare. But Nolan was not always A-Lister, who was able to choose the projects he wanted to essentially wanted. Example: Although he does “Odyssey”, as we speak, he used to flirt with another Greek mythology film that ended up going to a different director.

Recently writer David Goyer spoke “Happy sad confused” Podcast “Batman Begins” in honor of the 20th anniversary, directed by Nolan. “I had heard that Chris might develop a new Batman movie and I remember telling my representative,” Well, it will never come, “Goyer said.” None of these friends could get it. “

For Goyer’s remark, many writers had tried to get the “Batman” movie from the country in Warner Bros. Joel Schumacher after “Batman & Robin” failure. Nolan became a man who made it an event, but it was only after Goyer said he was offered DC’s beloved superhero as a consolation prize for not getting directly “Troy” in 2004. Here’s what he had to say about it:

“It is irony that it seems that Batman was a Chris consolation prize because he had developed” Troy “. Then at some point ‘Troy’ was moved and given [Wolfgang Petersen]. I think Wolfgang Petersen had developed ‘Batman vs. Superman’, so I think they changed. I think it was meant to be a consolation prize. “

There is a lot to dismantle but let’s start with the fact that yes, Wolfgang Petersen was designed to control the very dark version of “Batman vs. Superman” Andrew Kevin Walker (“Seven”) wrote in the early 2000s, more than ten years before making Zack Snyder as a reality for the 2016 “Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice”. As Goyer says, Warner Bros. Gave that version to go and Petersen ended up directing “Troy”, who acted as Brad Pitt Homer’s “The Iliad” movie.

At the same time, Nolan, who was coming up “Memento” and “Insomnia”, was then offered the opportunity to get a new “Batman” movie on the field. 2013 article Deadline He revealed that “Nolan was planning to guide” Troy “(published in 2004), but did not know it,” and since he was always interested in Batman, he placed his franchise group for WB leaders. The rest are history, When the 2005 “Batman Begins” invents the superhero completely on a large screen.

It leveled the way to the 2008 “The Dark Knight” event, which is still one of the most prestigious mainstream groups of all time and 2012 “Dark Knight Rises”, which was the most gross dc movie ever. However, it does not sound quite, according to the deadline, that “Batman” was in any way a consolation prize for Nolan. In any case, it is interesting to consider the world where he directed “Troy”, which was really a big movie instead of “Batman Begins” because it would have changed his career throughout the direction of progress.

Meanwhile, Nolan is currently photographing “The Odyssey” Universal Pictures for Universal PicturesGreek epic stacked actress, also based on Homer’s works (to simplify, it is essentially a sequel to “Troy” events). However, his serious flirtation “Troy” was all of them a year ago, it is fascinating that everything is coming into a full circle in some way more than 20 years later.

“Odyssey” is scheduled to hit theaters on July 17, 2026.