Christopher Nolan to Next Adapt Homer's The Odyssey

[edgaguirus]

I thought something was mything from the ceremony.

[Vakanai]

The Cyclops is a pretty substantial monster in the story. I read the Wishbone book as a kid, and that version was eating Odysseus's sailors in one bite. Assuming that's accurate to the original, we're talking about some BIG animatronics. Hopefully that's what ends up happening! The sheer scale of a machine like that, and the challenges of building and operating it, would probably win an SFX Oscar on their own.

That might be too big for an animatronic, when you consider just the weight alone of something that size...
More realistically I'm thinking a head the size of a human or better though. Not enough to eat sailors in one bite, but enough for two or three bites.

Of course you can make an animatronic head look bigger than it really is, such as with forced perspective. So even when you run into the mechanical limits or practical limits of trying to operate things of that size, you can still seem to go bigger without relying on CGI. It's how they made the actors playing hobbits in the Lord of the Rings seem smaller than the other characters. There's also green screen, which today we normally think of in pure CGI terms but in truth has been used since like the 60s, such as some old Disney movies like Bedknobs and Broomsticks or Mary Poppins. Well technically they used a yellow screen I think? But same principle.

God I missed practical effects, excited to see what Nolan pulls off. Worse case scenario even if the film is dull or poorly paced the visuals are still going to be a treat.

[Cryptid_Liker]

For those who haven't heard yet, the first teaser for The Odyssey is currently playing before Jurassic World: Rebirth screenings. It's looking really good so far, I'll say that.