Overview
- Christopher Nolan told Empire he was originally hired to direct Troy when Wolfgang Petersen briefly stepped aside.
- Warner Bros. scrapped Petersen’s Batman Vs. Superman and put him back on Troy, with Batman Begins offered to Nolan as a “consolation prize.”
- In 2003 Nolan publicly described taking on Batman as a passion choice, which contrasts with a 2013 Nikki Finke report that he left Troy because he “wasn’t feeling it.”
- Petersen’s Troy grossed about $500 million worldwide, while Batman Begins ignited Nolan’s studio career and led to a genre-shaping trilogy.
- Nolan says he will finally realize his Trojan Horse ideas in The Odyssey, which Universal has dated for July 17, 2026.