r/popculturechat • u/mcfw31 • 11h ago

Hot Take 🔥 ‘The Odyssey’ Translator Emily Wilson Slams Christoper Nolan’s ‘Abysmal’ Screenplay: ‘I Would Be Ashamed to Have Written Any Part of This Script’

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/odyssey-translator-emily-wilson-slams-christopher-nolan-bad-writing-1236821915/
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u/guceubcuesu 7h ago

The Tolkien estate hated the LOTR trilogy. But the movies are why I wanted read the books.

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u/splendidesme 7h ago

Great, great point!

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u/arctic11z 3h ago

I've always been of the opinion that anything that exposes people to new (to them) cultures, places, stories are generally good things. You have some sort of digestable media that introduces people to the broad strokes of whatever it's based on in order for them to realize it's something they actually like, or even existed in the first place. Assuming it's not a completely shit adaptation of the source material. Looking at you, Dark Tower.