I am a huge Nolan fan.

This trailer did absolutely nothing for me and if anything, I'm less excited now.

I don't mind the American accents, but agree the "My dad" line seems very out of place.

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Diversity casting in epics like this is ******ed. Lupita as Helen is a terrible choice. and if Ellen Page is playing Achilles, then thats probably even worse. I thought we were past this woke dei stuff?

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Lolwut??? I didn't know this. Surely not??

Voice stuff doesn't bother me too much. We got a hard Scottish accent from James Bond playing a Spanish guy in Highlander. We got Merican Kevin Costner playing Robin Hood. All kinds of examples here. I'll allow this.

But an African chick playing Helen of Troy and a woman playing Achilles?? No. Dumb. If true.

You have to really wonder about Rogue's fragile mental state knowing that Iceman dumped her for a dude between X3 and Days of Future Past.

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If Elliot is playing Achilles, he's playing a dead version from the underworld that I doubt is in the movie for long. Either way, it's just rumor for now…

First look at Elliot Page in THE ODYSSEY pic.twitter.com/5YR6kQboLL

— Christopher Nolan Archives (@NolanAnalyst) May 5, 2026

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I don't really care about Elliot Page at all, but casting him as Achilles would go down as one of the worst cast choices of all time, even if it is limited screen time.

Achilles, the greatest warrior of all Greek legend, being played by a tiny 5'1 actor with zero size would be insane.

Achilles' underworld rotten corpse is still not going to look like Juno. Is this movie a prank to see if anything can draw TC criticism?

It's ok. I'd just think that's an odd as **** casting choice no matter how much you like Nolan. This movie is going to be weird, but I'm interested to see where the hell he is taking this.

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YouBet said:

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shalackin said:

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Diversity casting in epics like this is ******ed. Lupita as Helen is a terrible choice. and if Ellen Page is playing Achilles, then thats probably even worse. I thought we were past this woke dei stuff?

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Lolwut??? I didn't know this. Surely not??

Voice stuff doesn't bother me too much. We got a hard Scottish accent from James Bond playing a Spanish guy in Highlander. We got Merican Kevin Costner playing Robin Hood. All kinds of examples here. I'll allow this.

But an African chick playing Helen of Troy and a woman playing Achilles?? No. Dumb. If true.

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He's not Spanish, he's Egyptian.

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Spanish. Egyptian. They all look the same.

YouBet said:

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AGinHI said:

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YouBet said:

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shalackin said:

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Diversity casting in epics like this is ******ed. Lupita as Helen is a terrible choice. and if Ellen Page is playing Achilles, then thats probably even worse. I thought we were past this woke dei stuff?

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Lolwut??? I didn't know this. Surely not??

Voice stuff doesn't bother me too much. We got a hard Scottish accent from James Bond playing a Spanish guy in Highlander. We got Merican Kevin Costner playing Robin Hood. All kinds of examples here. I'll allow this.

But an African chick playing Helen of Troy and a woman playing Achilles?? No. Dumb. If true.

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He's not Spanish, he's Egyptian.

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Spanish. Egyptian. They all look the same.

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You have the manners of a goat and you smell like a dung-heap. And you've no knowledge whatsoever of your potential. Now, get out!

I don't think it's awful, I just didn't find it particularly exciting of a trailer.

But kudos to Twitter for being upset about armor in a movie that also features a cyclops.

Homer's works always featured both cyclops & armor.

I still don't get why the go-to strawman for this is that if an old story includes ANY mythological or fantasy elements, all of the realistic/historical elements in it should be disregarded. If you don't care how he handles costumes and stuff that's totally fine, but the "their are fictional creatures in this" argument doesn't make sense. If you're doing Arthurian legend movies, just because "their are dragons!" in it, you would be right to find it weird if some of the knights were wearing Kevlar vests with multicam covers.

Again....it's ok...it's Nolan's right...not saying it'll be bad

It's just weird.

Of course it can, but he's making a movie adaptation of Homeric legend rooted in a historical period.

It really is akin to making a Post-Roman Britain movie and having the Saxons wearing 15th century plate armor. As the director, it's your call, but just because their are dragons in it doesn't mean making the Saxons look like Early Modern knights makes sense.

Cliff.Booth said:

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Homer's works always featured both cyclops & armor.

I still don't get why the go-to strawman for this is that if an old story includes ANY mythological or fantasy elements, all of the realistic/historical elements in it should be disregarded. If you don't care how he handles costumes and stuff that's totally fine, but the "their are fictional creatures in this" argument doesn't make sense. If you're doing Arthurian legend movies, just because "their are dragons!" in it, you would be right to find it weird if some of the knights were wearing Kevlar vests with multicam covers.

Again....it's ok...it's Nolan's right...not saying it'll be bad

It's just weird.

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I see this as updating the old stop motion classics like Jason and the Argonauts. This isn't a historical epic. It's fantasy. Set in Ancient Greece. It's the equivalent of getting upset that Elvish armor in Mordor wasn't properly articulated or some similar bull**** in Middle Earth. And I say this as someone who is very invested in history.

I don't think the Homer-Tolkein analogy is valid.

You can't have a female play Achilles, the greatest of all Greek warriors. That makes zero sense.