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Christopher Nolan couldn’t escape ‘despair.’ So he made ‘The Odyssey.’

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what ‘Temptation’ is.”

“The Odyssey” opens with a title card reading: “A time of apparent magic.” For Nolan, it was crucial to lean into the story’s fantastical elements while still keeping it grounded. With monsters such as the six-headed Scylla and Cyclops, he looked to big-screen classics “Jaws” and “Alien,” which rarely show their creatures head-on continue reading …

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