Ahead of the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, there was no question that audiences would be interested in a new release from the filmmaker, though there were still some questions about how enthusiastic audiences would be about a story that has been told so many different times over the centuries. A month after the movie’s release, it is closing in on $1.3 billion worldwide, which safely cements the idea that, no matter how familiar audiences might have been with Odysseus, they still wanted to see Nolan’s take on the material.

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