{"id":544550,"date":"2026-07-11T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T13:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/544550\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T13:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T13:58:19","slug":"christopher-nolan-says-odyssey-whiners-have-nothing-on-rabid-batman-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/544550\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Nolan says Odyssey whiners have nothing on rabid Batman fans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is per a new interview the\u00a0Odyssey\u00a0director gave to\u00a0The Telegraph\u00a0this week<\/a>, in which Nolan not only reminds everybody that he\u2019s an affably fastidious oddball\u2014reiterating the fact that he doesn\u2019t own a smartphone, and pulling a flask from his briefcase so he can save every drop of a leftover pot of tea\u2014but that he has the profound confidence of a man who\u2019s spent more than 20 years proving wrong the kinds of people who felt damn sure they could diagnose problems with his movies before ever actually seeing them. \u201cComes with the territory,\u201d he says when asked about Musk and the YouTube rage machine\u2019s anger at him casting Lupita Nyong\u2019o as Helen of Troy, or Elliot Page as Greek soldier Sinon. \u201cRemember,\u201d he adds, \u201cI spent 10 years of my life dealing with Batman.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nolan acknowledges that, when he signed on for 2005\u2019s\u00a0Batman Begins, \u201cWriters and artists had been working on this beloved character for almost 65 years, and a lot of freighted thoughts were out there about what he represents. And what I learnt over my time on that trilogy is you can\u2019t worry about any of that at all. What you have to do is honor the original text by interpreting it in the strongest way you personally can.\u201d Dismissing conversations had about a film before anyone\u2019s actually seen it as ultimately meaningless, Nolan says the only approach he knows is to tackle the material in the way that feels sincerely best to him. \u201cIn the end, fans of the property\u2014even when we were doing something that was not what they would have done\u2014enjoyed the sincerity of the attempt to put as good a version of it on screen as we could. All I can do is make the best film I possibly can in the most sincere way. It\u2019s very different from how anyone else would do it, but that\u2019s what adaptation is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, you can argue pretty persuasively that modern\u00a0Odyssey<\/a>\u00a0\u201cfans\u201d getting mad about Nolan\u2019s movie aren\u2019t going to be especially susceptible to sincerity, since their own objections so clearly lack it: Musk has not been shy about making it clear that he\u2019s attacking the film in large part to advance his own preferred narratives around race and gender identity. (Notably platforming the idea that the \u201conly\u201d reason Nolan could have cast Nyong\u2019o in the part is in order to curry diversity credit with Oscar voters.) None of which is going to bother Nolan, clearly, who\u2019s going to just keep on making some of the 21st century\u2019s most commercially and critically successful films, instead of getting bogged down in bad-faith discourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is per a new interview the\u00a0Odyssey\u00a0director gave to\u00a0The Telegraph\u00a0this week, in which Nolan not only reminds everybody…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-544550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}