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“I will ne'er get a chance to get precocious pinch you successful a dorm room,” said Jon Stewart connected The Daily Show tonight, preparing Christopher Nolan for his somewhat different questions astir The Odyssey.
Among nan queries: Why didn’t nan cyclops show a joke? What happened to nan wheels connected nan Trojan horse? And is this each conscionable happening successful Odysseus’ head?
More broadly, Stewart asked Nolan why he decided to tackle an epic poem written down astir nan 8th period BCE that conscionable happens to beryllium 1 of nan foundational texts of Western civilization. Turns out, nan filmmaker did it because he could.
“Coming retired of my past film, Oppenheimer had measurement much occurrence than I deliberation we had immoderate correct to expect,” explained Nolan. “And that gives you an opportunity to get thing made that you mightiness not different beryllium capable to get made.”
Stewart was shocked that nan man who generated billions pinch nan Dark Knight films would request to beryllium himself.
“You would person had trouble, Christopher Nolan, aft everything — aft Interstellar, aft Inception, aft Memento, aft Batman?”
“I deliberation it helped that it was very successful,” replied Nolan.
“You deliberation nan Oscar point helped,” nudged Stewart.
“I deliberation nan Oscar point helped. I deliberation it each helped to spell to nan workplace and opportunity — because being The Odyssey, it needs a monolithic budget. It needs a monolithic cast. It needs a lot. I for illustration to opportunity it was a very difficult movie, but difficult for each nan correct reasons. It’s The Odyssey. It should beryllium hard. It shows up connected screen.”
Hard arsenic it was, Nolan said they sewage it done early.
“Someone was telling maine that you really completed it up of schedule, arsenic you had pinch each of your movies, and nether budget,” queried Stewart.
“Yes. Never happens,” replied nan Oscar-winner. “The reality is, we went successful astatine a 100 days. And by time 91, we couldn’t person taken different step. So we vanished — we vanished astatine nan correct time…Everybody was done. I mean, group were conscionable exhausted. They’d been done it. So it took nan correct clip to make nan film. We had capable clip to make it.”
