Nolan’s movies to date have featured plenty of far-fetched sci-fi concepts, as Interstellar has time dilation, Inception has dream invasion, and The Prestige has (spoilers) human cloning in the Victorian era. Before that, 2023’s similarly fun Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves proved that not even the shared popularity of Stranger Things 4 and Baldur’s Gate 3 could guarantee a D&D movie box-office success. However, even before the financial failure of these two underrated fantasy flops, epic movies with fantasy elements struggled at the box office for years before the arrival of The Odyssey. Nolan Did Fantasy In A Way Mainstream Audiences Can EmbraceWithin this context, the box-office success of The Odyssey seems like an almost impossible anomaly. The real difference comes down to Nolan’s handling of the movie’s fantasy elements.