Read our Privacy noticeChristopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is expected to overtake the final North American box office total of his Oscar-winning drama Oppenheimer just 13 days after opening in cinemas. Released earlier this month, The Odyssey is Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic, following Odysseus’s decade-long journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. The Odyssey has opened to rave reviews and is expected to be a major Oscar contender, with The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey calling it Nolan’s “best film to date” in her five-star review. The biographical drama, written and directed by Nolan, starred Cillian Murphy as theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer and chronicled his role in the development of the atomic bomb during the Manhattan Project. The box office success follows weeks of online criticism over the film’s casting, including the roles of Elliot Page and Lupita Nyong’o.