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

it’s the countless films that have been loosely adapted from Homer’s nearly 3,000-year-old poem, ranging from “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” to “The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.”

But for Christopher Nolan, it was seeing an elementary school play that left an indelible mark on him at just 5 years old − one that has now led to his hotly anticipated “The continue reading …