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.