Christopher Nolan might be daring to tackle one of the first great adventure stories in human history with The Odyssey, but this isn’t the first time he’s come close to handling a sword-and-sandal epic. Speaking to Empire. about his upcoming project that seemingly has half of Hollywood in it, Nolan recalled the time he almost helmed the Brad Pitt-starring epic, Troy.
It turns out he was the first pick for the job before he was taken off the production in place of Wolfgang Petersen, who had been developing it prior to Nolan's involvement. At the time, Petersen was unable to get himself into the director’s chair as he was too busy working on his version of a Batman vs. Superman film. When that fell through, he took the reins of the Trojan horse, instead.
