Universal Pictures unveiled the first look at Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey earlier this week – and with the movie having only started filming in January, none of us expected to get a glimpse of it so soon. With that, the internet went wild for the early image, though now it appears not everyone was thrilled with what they saw...
Based on Homer's epic poem of the same name, The Odyssey will follow Damon's Odysseus as he sets off on a 10-year journey from Troy, in the hope of reuniting with his wife Penelope and their son Telemachus. Along the way, though, he encounters all sorts of otherworldly threats including a cyclops and a sea monster.
Others made clear they weren't bothered either way, however, with a third writing: "I really couldn't care less that the helmet Matt Damon wears in the Odyssey movie is 'historically inaccurate.' News flash: it’s a story! The whole thing never happened!"
As with Nolan, historians recently called out Ridley Scott for the artistic licenses he took with Gladiator 2. "It always amuses me when a critic says to me, 'This didn't happen in Jerusalem.' I say, 'Were you there? That’s the fucking answer'," the filmmaker candidly told Total Film back in November 2023.
