Christopher Nolan has divided moviegoers with the trailer for his upcoming film, The Odysseywhich would be a modern adaptation of Homer’s classic.
However, the 55-year-old director is not too worried about the backlash before the film is officially released, and the comments are based on the film itself.
In a new interview, Nolan said The telegraph“look, these conversations that happen before people see the movie – they’re always irrelevant because no one having them knows what the movie actually is yet.”
Critics have taken issue with the film’s language – which is modern rather than ancient, as well as the casting and the translation the writers have used to base the script on.
Nolan explained to the outlet that he received similar concerns when he was working on his Batman movie, as longtime fans had “a lot of thoughts out there about what he represents.”
He continued, “And what I learned during my time on that trilogy. is that you can’t worry about any of that at all. What you have to do is respect the original text by interpreting it in the strongest way that you personally can.”
Hope fans end up feeling the same way The Odysseyhe noted, “Ultimately, fans of the property—even when we did something that wasn’t what they wanted to do—enjoyed the sincerity of trying to put as good a version of it on screen as we could.”
