‘Not afraid to do it the old-fashioned way’: Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey set to see off YouTube upstarts

The summer’s most anticipated film will raise epic questions about culture wars, classics and the nature of film-making In a plot twist worthy of the ancient bards themselves, the hottest movie of the summer isn’t a superhero flick, or an alien-invasion yarn, or a crinolines-and-bonnets period drama. Instead, it is an adaptation of a nearly 3,000-year-old epic poem, which film-maker Christopher Nolan is releasing as a follow-up to Oppenheimer , his grim, Oscar-winning study of the origins of nuclear war. Nolan, previously director of Memento , the Dark Knight trilogy and Dunkirk , has now turn

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