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Caroline Young

The Key Lesson Christopher Nolan Learned From The Dark Knight Trilogy That He Held Onto While Making The Odyssey

Matt Damon as Odysseus in The Odyssey/ Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight (side by side image).

Christopher Nolan has seemingly taken on the impossible by adapting Homer’s The Odyssey, which follows Odysseus' long, dangerous journey to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Not many directors would even attempt to put such a story on the big screen, but Nolan seems up for the challenge. The film is set to release in July, and the difficult shooting process is finally behind Nolan and The Odyssey's cast. Now, Nolan is opening up about the project, specifically what he learned from making the Dark Knight films that prepared him for this endeavor.

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