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Christopher Nolan Explains Travis Scott Casting and Creative Risks in The Odyssey

A Time profile frames the film as a concept-first reading of Homer grounded in oral performance.

Overview

  • Nolan told Time on Tuesday that he cast Travis Scott as a bard to echo Homer’s oral poetry, which he called analogous to rap.
  • The interview confirmed that Lupita Nyong’o plays both Helen of Troy and her sister Clytemnestra.
  • Composer Ludwig Göransson said Nolan asked him to avoid an orchestra, so he built a score from bronze gongs recorded with synths.
  • Nolan defended the widely debated armor as plausible for the era, citing methods to blacken bronze and costly materials to signal status.
  • Universal still plans a July 17 release for the roughly $250 million production, the first feature shot entirely on IMAX 70mm cameras.