The Odyssey's Cast Reflects on Anticipated Blockbuster
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Topic poll · all networksHomer's Odyssey is roughly how many lines of verse?
- 4,000 lines
- 8,000 lines
- 12,000 lines
- 20,000 lines
Guess, then reveal the answer
12,000 lines
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' features one of cinema's largest ensemble casts.
Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o & Charlize Theron all star. Nolan called assembling the cast 'a dream I never thought possible' in early production notes.
Homer's Odyssey has been adapted for film since 1911!
The 1911 Italian silent film 'L'Odissea' was one of cinema's first feature-length epics. Over 113 years later, Christopher Nolan's version joins a long line of adaptations of the ~2,700-year-old poem.