14 Years Later, Christopher Nolan's Biggest Box Office Success Is No Longer 'The Dark Knight Rises'

And that appears to have been a winning combination, as The Odyssey has now become his biggest box office hit yet. Aalok Soni/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty ImagesAccording to Variety, The Odyssey has garnered $1.1 billion internationally, meaning it’s overtaken 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises as the director’s most successful film. It’s also the second most successful R-rated movie ever, behind another MCU movie: Deadpool and Wolverine. The Odyssey is still raking in the cash at the box office. Universal PicturesPerhaps most notably, this is Nolan’s first non-Batman film to cross a billion dollars at the box office, a milestone both The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises hit.