Film Review by CARROLL McCUNEAlong with The Iliad, The Odyssey is the beginning of the canon of Western literature. he claimed to have based his screenplay on the 2017 English vernacular translation of The Odyssey by the British/American classicist Emily Wilson. The Christianized themes of Nolan’s Odyssey are transgression, guilt, vengeance, and Zeus’s Law (kindness to strangers). Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in The Odyssey CREDIT: UNIVERSALOther big-name casting choices for The Odyssey are even more controversial than Damon. But, as a filmmaker not a classicist, Nolan has every right to alter the story according to his own artistic vision.