Nolan's Odyssey: Fame-Driven Casting Redefines an Ancient Hero
A Salon opinion piece argues that Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey uses star power to reinterpret Homer’s epic, with Matt Damon cast as Odysseus and other celebrities (Lupita Nyong’o as Helen, Elliot Page as Sinon, Travis Scott as a bard, Benny Safdie as Agamemnon, Anne Hathaway as Penelope) to foreground fame as a central theme, prompting questions about fidelity to the source and the role of celebrity in modern myth-making.
