The director wanted the Cyclops to seem real—and he succeeded ...

Christopher Nolan used every cinematic trick in the book to bring his terrifying Cyclops to life.

Still, Nolan wanted to get a famous joke from Homer’s The Odyssey into his epic adaptation which opens this week, but he couldn’t quite make it work. The joke is considered one of the oldest puns in ...

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey omits the most famous moment from Odysseus' showdown with the Cyclops, because of a language issue.

Christopher Nolan's preference toward in-camera effects led him to take a practical approach to the dreaded Cyclops Polyphemus (Bill Irwin) in The Odyssey.

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Speaking with IGN as part of our IGN30 Icon Series, Guillermo del Toro opened up about how he inspired Christopher Nolan’s ...

From Polyphemus the Cyclops to Calypso the nymph, here are the mythological creatures that define Odysseus' journey in ...

While promoting his film, Nolan has opened up about how he wanted to create this sequence with as little CGI as possible, ...

The Odyssey opens on July 17. British journalist Trevor Phillips hasn’t even started as CBS News’ Senior Global Affairs ...

Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan attend Universal Pictures THE ODYSSEY Premiere on July 11, 2026 in Mumbai, India. (Photo by Aalok Soni/ for Universal Pictures) The Odyssey, like its precursor The ...

When the first footage from Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" dropped, some of the worst people on Al Gore's internet lost their minds (Elon Musk chief among them). They decried its inaccuracies, even ...