Question is, will the movie itself actually be fantastical, or will there be a narrative device that facilitates fantastical elements (ie, characters tell stories of Odysseus’ travels and they’re presented as being more than they actually were in reality)?

Tickets selling out a year in advance is lunacy

Sounds like we're getting a prologue. Dunno if it'll be in front of Wicked or Avatar 3 though

Christopher Nolan speaks for the first time about THE ODYSSEY

“As a filmmaker, you’re looking for gaps in cinematic culture, things that haven’t been done before. And what I saw is that all of this great mythological cinematic work that I had grown up with – Ray Harryhausen movies and other things – I’d never seen that done with the sort of weight and credibility that an A-budget and a big Hollywood, IMAX production could do.”

“I’ve been out on it for the last four months. We got the cast who play the crew of Odysseus’ ship out there on the real waves, in the real places. And yeah, it’s vast and terrifying and wonderful and benevolent, as the conditions shift. We really wanted to capture how hard those journeys would have been for people. And the leap of faith that was being made in an unmapped, uncharted world.”

Christopher Nolan says they shot over 2 million feet of film” for ‘THE ODYSSEY’

Im not even much of a Nolan fan but I'm all in on this one.

Why is this so grey and dull? Ancient Greece was one of the most colorful civilizations ever.

Because this is Christopher Nolan and they've only shown a few locations max

Plus the costumes aren't accurate to the late bronze age and they're even using a viking (!) ship instead of a greek one Nolan had the opportunity to do something really cool and unique looking, but he lacked the passion or the interest, clearly

wait until you find out about how historically inaccurate the cyclops is

how have you seen the film already

i can’t wait man

While The Odyssey is filled with monsters, gods, and supernatural events, many scholars believe it contains echoes of real historical geography, customs, and events from the Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age (roughly 1200–700 BCE). Although written down later (around 700–650 BCE), the Odyssey preserves: Mycenaean-style palaces; Bronze Age weaponry and armor; Social structures like chiefdoms and elite households

Like, I'm still interested in the movie - but to try to dismiss a valid critique as some made up bullshit by bringing up the fantasy elements is wild.

There are people spamming under every post about this movie about how unrealistic it is that the characters in this are wearing pants. The "valid critique" you're talking about is a bunch of people acting like doing a less historically accurate version of the definitive fantasy story of all time is somehow an insane or creatively bankrupt take. Very few make these arguments about other films of its nature (the Northman/the Green Knight come to mind), and even less fantastical ones, but now because it's Nolan, every one has to chime in like they're some sort of expert on history.

Historical accuracy can be an awesome tool (Oppenheimer is startlingly accurate, down to exact verbiage in many scenes), but sometimes it's okay to go with something more modern/broad to appeal to a timelessness nature that having pantsless men with giant tusked hats and painted yellow armor will not bring.

I'm not saying you're doing this but often the same people levying this "valid critique" in every single discussion circle are indistinguishable from the same people complaining about people of color being main characters.

Anne Hathaway is Penelope, Mia Goth is Melantho

Tom Holland is Telemachus

This looks awful

I’m extremely hype for this

But these pictures have done absolutely nothing for me

Hopefully it comes across better on-screen

Those are set stills from the Empire employee, not color-graded movie material. It’ll look different next July.

It’s so extremely annoying to read too knowing how often this this story is interpreted loosely or otherwise

Spiderman and Jason Bourne about to save cinema

Can't bring myself to care about this one

Looks like a pass from me

It gets worse with every new picture that’s revealed