That, I must admit, is how I've felt since Christopher Nolan announced his blockbuster adaptation of The Odyssey last year. Nolan's Odyssey is largely faithful to the original poem – much more so than many of history's other famous remakes. Personally, I'd be up for a seven-part Odyssey film series, but it might not be to everyone's tastes. Typically, history's most successful adaptations have retold Homer from a fresh vantage point by narrowing in on one particular aspect. Penelope and Telemachus argue over the future of Ithaca (Image: Universal Pictures)Yet in the film, Odysseus seems largely unmoved.