For the better part of a decade, Christopher Nolan was synonymous with Batman. He broke out with Memento, but there’s a reason his time with the cape and cowl is simply known as the Nolan Trilogy — they were some of the most popular and profitable movies ever made.
Nolan has since forged a legacy of his own with ambitious movies covering epic sci-fi premises (Interstellar, Tenet) and historical moments (Dunkirk, Oppenheimer). His latest movie, The Odyssey, is a blend of both, an adaptation of one of the oldest epics in existence that deals with gods and monsters as much as it deals with the collapsing Bronze Age. And that appears to have been a winning combination, as The Odyssey has now become his biggest box office hit yet.
