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Christopher Nolan compares The Odyssey actor to Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The Odyssey director, Christopher Nolan, has heaped praise on Samantha Morton’s performance in his new epic, claiming she received a reaction he hasn’t seen since he directed the late Heath Ledger in 2008’s The Dark Knight. The new adaptation of the classical Homer poem has earned a rapturous response from early reviewers. Morton appears as the goddess Circe in the film, and while she reportedly only appears in a handful of scenes, some critics have claimed she steals the film. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Nolan agreed that Morton’s performance is a pivotal one. “This was a massive film and she is someone who comes in and changes the dynamic,” said the 55-year-old. “In some weird way, the film lived or died over that character. She was the fulcrum. I’ve always admired Samantha’s work, she brings so much depth of …

Christopher Nolan singles out Odyssey actor who reminded him of Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight

Published by Daniella Wilson

Christopher Nolan borrowed one key lesson from Guillermo del Toro for The Odyssey

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Christopher Nolan credited Guillermo del Toro for changing how he thought about filming monsters, revealing that the Oscar-winning Mexican director’s approach “inspired” the mythological creatures featured in The Odyssey. The film adaptation of Homer’s Greek epic follows Odysseus’s long journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War as he battles monsters, gods and mythical foes while his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) fends off suitors and son Telemachus (Tom Holland) searches for him. Matt Damon plays the hero Odysseus and the ensemble cast includes Robert Pattinson as the suitor Antinous, Zendaya as Athena, Samantha Morton as Circe, Charlize Theron as Calypso, Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy. Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Himesh Patel, Elliot Page, Bill Irwin and Mia Goth also feature. Christopher Nolan said Guillermo del Toro’s approach ‘inspired’ how he filmed The Odyssey ’s mythological creatures (Getty) In …

Inside the Making of ‘The Odyssey’—With Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and Christopher Nolan

Published by Jenni Sidey

He also knew, early on, precisely how he wanted to shoot the film. For The Odyssey, Nolan asked IMAX to design a camera that could capture not just big sweeping shots but intimate scenes of dialogue, something that was previously thought to be impossible, due to how loud IMAX cameras are. At Nolan’s behest, IMAX devised a kind of blimp covering to get the effect he wanted while still allowing the actors to hear themselves over the sound of the camera. And then, because the covering often blocked the actor’s eyeline, Nolan himself improvised a workaround, a system of mirrors that would allow a second actor’s face to be projected just left of his lens. “Chris doesn’t fake anything,” Holland told me. “Everything’s real. Everything you’re reacting to is what he wants your visceral human response to.” Pattinson once had to shoot a scene in The Odyssey responding to a far-off sound. “I can’t see anything, apart from the camera,” he recounted, “and I was just asking Chris, because I’m supposed to react to this …

Nicolas Cage says Christopher Nolan ‘won’t call me back’ for turning down film

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Nicolas Cage claimed directors Christopher Nolan, Woody Allen and Paul Thomas Anderson stopped offering him projects after he turned down roles in their films. The actor said David O Russell was the only director to approach him again after a rejection. “David O Russell offered me a movie a million years ago,” Cage said on the New York Times podcast The Interview. “It was a good movie, and he offered it and I said no, and he’s the only director that I ever said no to who actually came back and offered me another movie.” Cage stars in Russell’s forthcoming film Madden, playing the late football coach and broadcaster John Madden. The drama follows Madden’s career with the Oakland Raiders, his later broadcasting success, and his involvement in the creation of the Madden NFL video game franchise. The film also stars …

The Real Lesson of Elon Musk’s Outrage at Christopher Nolan

Published by Sam Flores

A beautiful movie star is cast in a beloved story. The character is fictional—she isn’t even fully human. Nonetheless, activists and purists insist that the actor is the wrong race. I’m speaking of Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell, the 2017 film adaptation of a popular Japanese manga series. Critics accused the movie’s creators of “whitewashing” the heroine, a cyborg whose physical form is entirely prosthetic and whose race and gender are, in fact, mutable. She’s implanted with the consciousness of a Japanese woman, but her memories have been suppressed and edited. The story is an examination of how unstable identity is, and how untethered it can be from the body. Yet for detractors, the politics of representation—the simple fact that Johansson isn’t Asian—overrode the power of the film’s philosophical inquiry. Audiences are willing to suspend all manner of disbelief in service of a good story—except, apparently, when it comes to race. Hence the controversy surrounding this year’s most anticipated movie, Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey. The director cast the Kenyan Mexican actor …

Christopher Nolan Interview on How Hard ‘The Odyssey’ Was to Make

Published by Daniella Wilson

Director Christopher Nolan didn’t want to hold anything back when adapting Homer’s The Odyssey for the big screen. Talking to CBS News‘ Scott Pelley for a 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday night, Nolan was asked what he believes the “essential elements” of his films are “I always try to have a point of view on the story that’s from inside the film,” he said. “So I’m not looking at the characters from 30,000 feet; I’m trying to be in the race, in the maze with them. Because I want to try and give the audience a sense of what a place would smell like, what it would feel like. But you’re also trying to make the most involving, the most extreme version of a story possible.” He told Pelley that he always approaches each film as if it were his last. “I feel a real responsibility to try and get as much on screen for the audience as possible to give the audience the fullest flavor, the fullest set of images and events that we …

Christopher Nolan reveals reason he cast rapper Travis Scott in The Odyssey

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Christopher Nolan has shared the exceptionally poetic reason behind casting rapper Travis Scott as the bard in his forthcoming epic The Odyssey. The Oscar-winning director’s next movie, an adaptation of Homer’s Greek poem, stars Matt Damon as the hero Odysseus, Anne Hathaway as his wife Penelope and Tom Holland as their son Telemachus. Also featuring Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Mia Goth and Benny Safdie, it will follow Odysseus along his perilous journey back home after the 10-year Trojan War. Scott’s role was first revealed in a January trailer for the movie, and left several viewers stunned and confused. Explaining his decision to cast the 35-year-old “Sicko Mode” rapper, Nolan told Time magazine in a new interview: “I cast him because I wanted to nod towards the idea that this story has been handed down as oral poetry, which is analogous …

Irish News wrong to allege ‘serious editorial misconduct’ on Stephen Nolan show, says IPSO

Published by Sam Flores

Stephen Nolan. BBC Northern Ireland has won a complaint against the Irish News over four articles that alleged staff had been “planted” in the audience of presenter Stephen Nolan’s TV show. Press regulator IPSO found the Irish News had “overstated” the nature of audience manipulation allegations shared with it by a source. Rather than staff posing as audience members, IPSO said, the source’s description appeared to match up better with the BBC’s position: that “spotters” would point out people who wished to participate for the production staff to call upon. The allegations relating to Nolan Live were reported in four articles over the course of five days in August 2023. IPSO said the inaccuracy was significant because it “represented a serious allegation of editorial misconduct that could have serious reputational implications” both for the BBC and individuals working on the programme. IPSO added that the Irish News had failed to provide the allegations to the BBC ahead of the first article, which related mainly to the “work environment” of the programme but included references to …

John Nolan, Person of Interest star and uncle to famous director, dies aged 87

Published by Daniella Wilson

Veteran actor John Nolan, uncle to director Christopher and TV producer Jonathan, has died at the age of 87. His screen career began in the 1960s with supporting roles in ITV Playhouse and The Prisoner, which preceded more substantial parts as the title character in 1970’s Daniel Deronda and Geoff Hardcastle in cult sci-fi favourite Doomwatch. Off-screen, Nolan was also an accomplished theatre performer, having once been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he acted in productions of Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In the later part of his career, Nolan became known for collaborations with his nephews, both of whom have forged highly successful careers in the film and television industry. John appeared in the feature directorial debut of now-legendary director Christopher Nolan, titled Following, portraying a policeman in the neo-noir crime thriller. The two would collaborate several more times, with Christopher casting John as businessman Douglas Fredericks in his Dark Knight trilogy and as an unnamed blind man in the harrowing war drama Dunkirk. John’s other …

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All posts tagged: Nolan

Christopher Nolan compares The Odyssey actor to Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight

Christopher Nolan singles out Odyssey actor who reminded him of Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight

Inside the Making of ‘The Odyssey’—With Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and Christopher Nolan

Nicolas Cage says Christopher Nolan ‘won’t call me back’ for turning down film

The Real Lesson of Elon Musk’s Outrage at Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan Interview on How Hard ‘The Odyssey’ Was to Make

Christopher Nolan reveals reason he cast rapper Travis Scott in The Odyssey

Irish News wrong to allege ‘serious editorial misconduct’ on Stephen Nolan show, says IPSO

John Nolan, Person of Interest star and uncle to famous director, dies aged 87