Nolan and Damon's Epic Journey Home in The Odyssey Hits Arizona Stages

To use a Greek word, there may be a certain, you know, hubris in deciding you’re just the person to adapt a literary masterpiece to the screen. When said masterpiece is The Odyssey , that’s hubris on steroids. So after taking on the birth of the atomic age with Oppenheimer , filmmaker Christopher Nolan took a breather with his follow-up, merely taking the prototype for the Western narrative tradition. Is the resulting movie Homer? Of course not, no more than John Huston’s The Bible (1966) is The