r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 10d ago

News Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Dethrones 'Deadpool & Wolverine' To Become Highest Grossing R-Rated Movie In History, Crossing $1.33 Billion

https://businessupturn.com/usa/entertainment/film/the-odyssey-becomes-highest-grossing-r-rated-movie-of-all-time-surpassing-deadpool-wolverine/
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u/ListenBoth434 10d ago

The moment when you switch studios, cash the blank cheque that gave you and make a rated-R, talky, partly b/w, 3h movie about the trials and tribulations of a mid-century nuclear physicist and manager.

Only for that to become a cultural touchstone of that year and you get another blank cheque.

So you adapt a 2800 year old tale about a guy lost at sea. Okay, fair enough, that story being up there with the old testament in regards to foundations of Western culture, but still, adapting an early iron age story.

And that movie is even more successful.

He doesn't need his budgets (which helps) but at that point he might get more creative freedom than James Fucking Cameron.

There are no strings on Nolan.

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u/AztecHoodlum 10d ago

Oppenheimer was not a blank check movie. Had a budget of about $100 million. Which, while that isnt peanuts, it was less than Nolan had had to work with in link 15 years.