Christopher Nolan divided moviegoers with the trailer for his upcoming film, The Odysseywhich would be a modern adaptation of Homer’s classic.
The 55-year-old director, however, isn’t too concerned about the backlash ahead of the film’s official release and the comments are based on the film itself.
In a new interview, Nolan said The telegraph“Look, these conversations that happen before people see the movie – they’re still irrelevant, because no one knows what the movie is yet.”
Critics have taken issue with the film’s language – which is modern rather than ancient – as well as the casting and the translation on which the writers based the screenplay.
Nolan told the outlet that he received similar apprehensions while working on his Batman films, as longtime fans had “a lot of restless thoughts about what it represents.”
He continued: “And what I’ve learned over the course of this trilogy is that you can’t worry about all that. What you have to do is honor the original text by interpreting it in the strongest possible way.”
Hoping the fans end up feeling the same way The Odysseyhe noted: “Ultimately, fans of the property – even when we were doing something that wasn’t what they would have done – appreciated the sincerity of the attempt to put as good a version of it on screen as possible.”
