From missing scenes and characters to a brand new ending, the director has taken some artistic liberties with Homer’s epic poem

From sex and the gods to that ending, Christopher Nolan’s big-screen adaptation of “The Odyssey” deviates from Homer’s epic poem in a number of ways.

Here's a breakdown of "The Odyssey" timeline, the monsters and the Greek legends that shaped Christopher Nolan's nearly three-hour epic.

Isn’t it odd that the original epic, written about 3,000 years ago, should have stronger, more easily forgiven women than a modern retelling?

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Christopher Nolan's adaptation of 'The Odyssey' has created a lot of controversy online, but academics are having a different conversation.

The film draws on Virgil, Aeschylus and lost Greek epics as director turns the warrior’s journey home into a story of guilt, collapse and redemption

With 'The Odyssey, did Nolan deliver another cinematic masterpiece, or has his latest disrespected the gods?

Controversy has centred largely on casting, but it also reflects broader debates on who gets to retell this epic story.

From missing scenes and characters to a brand new ending, the director has taken some artistic liberties with Homer’s epic poem

Despite rumors to the contrary, Nolan has given Homer's epic a movie adaptation that only someone of his genius could.

Nolan’s IMAX version reinvents literature’s most famous plot device, applying old-school Hollywood techniques to conjure the intense drama of the Trojan Horse. | Hollywood

Christopher Nolan and his cast from 'The Odyssey' unpack their ambitious Homer adaptation and why it's a spiritual sequel to 'Oppenheimer.'