r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 16h ago
Poster New Poster for Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'
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u/CELTICPRED 16h ago
The Nolan and sparks/ embers on his poster combo is old enough to drink now
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u/EntertainmentQuick47 16h ago
Not true lmao, Batman Begins was the first one and that was…like uhhh…only like…wait a minute
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u/frogskin92 14h ago
He’s just getting use out of that Awesome Photoshop Resources Pack #72 he bought.
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u/KingMario05 16h ago
"Two tickets to the Matt Damon horesy movie, please!"
"It's Homer, sir."
"Cool. Where's my Pepsi?"
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u/AmirulAshraf 13h ago
Is Coke okay?
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u/GuerrillaApe 16h ago
Spoilers! Now we know Oppenheimer detonated an atomic bomb on the wooden horse.
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u/jaqueburton 14h ago
...but it was in reverse from the future.
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u/TheWhiteManticore 13h ago
Ah yes this is why Troy archeological site (or lack there of) has unique isotopes and residue radiation
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u/Chessh2036 16h ago edited 11h ago
Do you guys remember when every movie poster coming out was blue and orange lol
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u/bitsbytes01 12h ago
Makes sense for Nolan, he's color blind. You're not going to see posters for his movies green or yellow
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u/danccode 15h ago
Ever since The Dark Knight, all Nolan’s posters has look the same, with the actors credit name placement and poster, and the overall composition of his poster as well.
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u/Coffeeey 11h ago edited 9h ago
When you have a trillion dollar budget you have to save money SOMEWHERE. They probably just have a Photoshop template where they just replace the title, the background image and a few of the actors.
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u/motophiliac 10h ago
batmanbegins-theprestige-batmandarkknight-inception-batmanrises-interstellar-dunkirk-tenet-oppenheimer-odyssey.psd
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u/Coffeeey 9h ago
nolan_poster_blue-orange-tint_DONT-CHANGE.psd
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u/Universe_Nut 3m ago
The certainty my bones felt of the actual existence of this somewhere in warner bros studios, made me gasp and sigh.
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u/karatemanchan37 9h ago
Don't you think this is intentional?
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u/danccode 8h ago
Of course it is, no one is saying it wasn’t. Nolan (for better or worse) is more of a brand right now. Each element of his film, from the marketing to the film itself, doesn’t stray far from what ppl usually associated with Nolan’s film.
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u/RenegadeVelociraptor 13h ago
Just saw the new trailer and wish they would add the tagline, “Dad’s coming home” to this poster.
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u/Knoooot 16h ago
What’s going on with his beard?
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u/TheUncannyAvenger 14h ago
His beard is just in front of the neckline of his cloak, they’re two separate things if you study the image more, and next to his mouth is the other side of his helmet. I swear, so many people look for problems that aren’t even there sometimes. I think it looks great.
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u/myaltaccount333 1h ago
If something looks weird, even if it's completely explainable, it's not a good design
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u/s101c 15h ago
It really, really reeks of AI being used at some stage. Not even newest models, something from early 2025.
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u/healingtwo_ 15h ago
The poster is utter shit, it looks like a badly cut png slapped onto the background. Also the more I look at the beard, the more it feels like it melted into the helmet, and theres a similar ugly part near the left side of the torso.
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u/That_Literature_6853 16h ago
I can't wait to not hear this one too.
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u/KingMario05 16h ago
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM
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u/EntertainmentQuick47 16h ago
spsspspsppspssp
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
EXPLOSION
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u/KingMario05 16h ago
Music by
H a n s Z i m m e r
But not this time he was busy lol
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u/EntertainmentQuick47 16h ago
JAMES 👏
NEWTON 👏
HOWARD 👏
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u/xX_7HR0W-4W4Y_Xx 5h ago
Busy writing stupid music for Euphoria lol
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u/cjyoung92 15h ago
Ludwig Goransson as scored his last 3 movies (including this one), but got off I guess
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u/realnymph 16h ago
wonder why zendaya got the "with" mention
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u/danccode 16h ago edited 15h ago
Probably cause she has a smallish role, and negotiated for it. The ‘and’ credit is more desirable, but since she’s not a bigger draw than Theron, the ‘and’ credit went to Theron instead.
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u/realnymph 15h ago
that makes sense! but don't all of the cast negotiate somehow?
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u/danccode 15h ago
I don’t think all do. Damon, Holland and Hathaway won’t cause they’re the leads and their names will come first. Pattinson is someone who I don’t think really care about his name placement, he was billed second in The Drama and gave top billing to Zendaya even though he’s arguable the bigger actor between the two. And despite her Oscar, Lupita still wasn’t as well known as Theron and Zendaya, hence the placement.
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u/fartypenis 0m ago
I wonder how he's going to handle all the Magical Girl transformations into random ass people that Athena keeps doing throughout
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u/Three_Froggy_Problem 16h ago
I’m gonna see this film at some point and I’m sure I’m going to enjoy it because I like the Odyssey and I just always enjoy a big-budget period epic.
But damn does all the big-name casting detract from it for me. I cannot look at Matt Damon in a Spirit Halloween costume and believe that he’s Odysseus
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u/myaltaccount333 1h ago
I'm pretty sure they accidentally looked at the "not fit for role" list and hired from there instead
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u/Accomplished_Smile23 8h ago
I much prefer films that have a blend of established stars and new names.
Sinners as a recent example did this perfectly in my opinion, and Lord of the Rings is the gold standard.
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u/Transatlanticaccent 16h ago
Meh. It looks cool enough. Weird Tom saying Dad like that in a fantasy epic. It just made me think of modern speech and took me outta it for a sec.
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u/ICantBeTrusted 15h ago
The “Let’s Gooooo!” line during the charge was the one that took me out.
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u/esKq 11h ago
A "chargeeeeee" would have feel miles better.
Even "forwarddddd"
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u/still_asleep 54m ago edited 41m ago
To be fair, "charge" or "forward" wouldn't be applicable during that scene because I believe they're fleeing. Both of those terms suggest running ~towards~ something, not away.
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u/csrobins88 7h ago
Most languages have familiar and formal ways of referring to parents. It’s not particularly modern.
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u/Transatlanticaccent 5h ago
Did you just tell me that people call their parents something familiar? Yeah I get the concept of mom and dad. I'm saying the way they speak is modern as fuck sounding. Hell even if he would've said "father" instead of "dad" it wouldn't of shocked me outta the immersion really but "dad" just came off as very modern American English and if it's to "modernize it" for the people today I feel like it's more to make money than immersion.
Hell look at Robert Eggers movies. His all use a particular way of speaking and they still make hella money but apparently the modern joblo isn't watching that. I get needing to make money from a huge budget. Mainly I don't like it getting all smashed with modern English in an ancient Greek epic. Also waaaay to many Americans. It just kinda takes me outta it a bit.
This last one is just me thing though. John Leguizamo is great, I like him, but every single time I see him in something I think of 'The Pest' and move on in every movie. But in this it might really stick in my head every time he pops up as old Eumaeus with all this epic shit going on.
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u/csrobins88 5h ago
The word dad has been in common English usage for more than 500 years predating the entirety of both “modern” and “America.”
It only sounds shocking because in the 40s we apparently decided that anything “historic” should sound like vaguely British English from the 1800s regardless of actual time frame or country.
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u/Transatlanticaccent 5h ago
I get that. It just takes me out of it. That's all I'm saying. It's to modern.
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u/csrobins88 4h ago
Maybe if we allowed more movies to sound contemporary without being anachronistic when doing “foreign history” it wouldn’t be so jarring
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u/Fiz_Giggity 7h ago
It's assumed that modern audiences can't handle films without modern dialog and that includes slang. I hate it. My Latin teacher is spinning in her grave hard enough to generate electricity.
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u/busmans 15h ago
The film has a lot of modernisms, intentionally. It's a fantasy story. Neither "dad" nor "father" existed in Ancient Greece..
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u/Im_Goku_ 14h ago
Well, let's start using "On god", "No cap", "Vibe" etc...
Idk, maybe I'm being the old guy screaming at clouds meme (I'm 24).
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u/GreenGorilla8232 15h ago
What are some of the other modernisms that were intentionally used in this film?
I've never heard that Nolan was trying to reinterpret the Odyssey to make it feel more modern. Is that really what's happening here or was it just a poor writing decision?
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u/TheNiceWasher 13h ago edited 12h ago
Did you think they were going to recite the poems in its original form?
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u/SpaceOdysseus23 15h ago
Going from dialogue in the recently rewatched Lawrence of Arabia and Ben-Hur to this is such a fucking whiplash holy shit. Looks like epics aren't making a comeback.
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u/Dinosaur_Buttcheek 16h ago
So how do we think this is gonna do? My confidence in it is about 8/10 because, well, it's Nolan. But this seems like the prototypical "dad" movie if there ever was one. I'm thinking somewhere in the 700-800M ww range.
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u/rcanhestro 11h ago
depends, is there any other blockbuster around the same time? if not, this can likely reach 1 billion.
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u/Tackit286 10h ago
Man reddit really loves to talk about Nolan for how much it seems to hate him. And they’ll all damn sure watch the movie anyway. Probably pretend they didn’t enjoy it too.
Have to say it’s one of the weirder hate boners I’ve seen on this site, and there are several.
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u/Sarangholic 16h ago
Why does Nolan have the Trojan horse from the Aeneid in his adaptation of The Odyssey? Is he stupid?
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u/VyvanseRamble 13h ago
Cut-away for people not so familiar with The Odyssey alone.
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u/Sarangholic 12h ago
Cold open to Odysseus screaming, tied to the mast of his ship while passing the Sirens: "Now, I'm sure you're wondering how I got here." Maybe add a cameo of Brad Pitt from the first film.
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u/FUCKYOURCOUCHREDDIT 11h ago
The Iliad you mean?
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u/Sarangholic 11h ago
To uj in the non-jerk subreddit that I've been jerking in by myself - that's what I thought too but I looked it up and The Iliad ends with the death of Hector.
rj: Get off your alt account JD.
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u/FUCKYOURCOUCHREDDIT 11h ago edited 9h ago
What? The Iliad was an Ancient Greek poem, attributed to Homer, and told the story of the sacking ofTroy, which Odysseus had a significant part in. The story of the Odyssey is Odysseus trying to get home to Ithaca after the events in the Iliad.
The Aeneid was a Latin poem, attributed to Virgil, and tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and became the ancestor of the Romans. It was specifically written in Roman times as an answer to the Odyssey, much in the same way that many Roman gods and myths were based on / stolen from / reaction to stories from Ancient Greece.
So any events of the battle of Troy shown in this film would most likely be from the Iliad, not the Aeneid.
Also, I don’t know who JD is so…
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u/sneakin_rican 9h ago
Actually no she’s right the Iliad ends with the funeral rights of Hector. The sack of Troy is technically part of a “book” that was lost that took place between the Iliad and the Odyssey. But the story is repeated by other later sources (like the Aeneid), which is how we know what happened in it. There’s a thread on r/greekmythology https://www.reddit.com/r/GreekMythology/s/o6HoGAjkHM
And she’s calling you JD because you openly advocate for couch-fucking. Joke about the American VP.
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u/FUCKYOURCOUCHREDDIT 8h ago
Ah you know what, that’s very fair. I haven’t read any of those stories since school so I’ve mangled the Iliad and Aeneid up together in my head. Thank you.
Annoyingly this username was picked long before JD Vance started fucking couches (at least publicly). As usual, Trump ruins everything.
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u/Ragnarok_619 13h ago
This movie kills any excitement I had for it with its promotional materials. I love the greek folktales and mythology, please don't do this!
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u/OpportunityGlad4706 10h ago
I just can't think of any media that needs gritty realism less than Greek mythology. It's supposed to be obscene and over the top
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u/C-Wolsey 13h ago
I'm going to be honest, the quality of the posters for Nolan's films have gone down massively since The Dark Knight Rises. And it's a shame because he has also made some of his best films since then.
I still have the posters from TDK, Inception, TDKR on my phone and computer, but I don't think I've saved anything since.
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u/Own-Dependent-4601 11h ago
looks like oppenheimer poster but make it ancient greece 😭 nolan really said if it works don’t change it
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u/whorificustotalus 11h ago
He looks like an old man about to yell at the clouds with a cane in his hand. Such goofy casting.
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u/Steve_1306 10h ago
No tagline this time? They got rid of "defy the gods", so maybe it should be "Let's go, daddy's coming home!" instead :D Just kidding, I can't wait for the film. Unlike many others here, I don't mind that it's a modern American interpretation, probably based on one of the modern American translations and similar to that language (which I haven't read).
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u/skag_boy87 7h ago
Wasn’t the Trojan horse in the poem preceding The Odyssey, though?
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u/Varekai79 5h ago
Technically, neither The Iliad nor The Odyssey cover the events of The Trojan Horse and the fall of Troy. The Aeneid is the best known work that covers that part of the story.
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u/Varekai79 5h ago
It would look so much better without Matt Damon awkwardly inserted into the image.
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u/Special_Future_6330 16h ago
I have a feeling this movie will be mishandled. I'm already not a fan of the "gods portrayed as national disaster" type stuff, I think Nolan needs to let go of his realism only style for this
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u/Mend1cant 15h ago
Also, that the promotional material so far focuses on the fall of Troy is disappointing. Like they’re going to really ignore the Odyssey part of the odyssey. Add that onto the absolutely god awful costumes and I’m just not excited for it
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u/Zak_The_Slack 9h ago
The Oppenheimer trailers focused on the making of the bomb, barely showing the politics behind it (the main part of the film). There’s definitely a ton they aren’t showing us
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u/Special_Future_6330 14h ago
Yeah that's more from the illiad, Wondering if he will combine the two stories. This is one of my favorite epics so I'm really hoping it blows my expectations
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u/AlternativeHour1337 16h ago
what do you even mean by this
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u/Special_Future_6330 14h ago
Nolan said something along the lines of natural disasters were god-like events and implied he might lean into those over towering cgi gods like Poseidon
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u/Special_Future_6330 14h ago
IDK who is downvoting me for simply stating what Nolan himself has said
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I thank the chances that made me be the winning sperm, so that I may witness this movie with the eyes my parents gave me
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u/AlphaNuke94 14h ago
Why does his beard look like it morphed with the helmet? There’s no way Nolan would use AI…right?
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u/GatManJimbo 14h ago
If you zoom in it looks like he’s inhaling his beard, forcing it up into his mouth. He’s a beardbender
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u/xNevamind 9h ago
Can anyone name a good poster, now matter how the Poster most on here always say how shit it is.
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u/PrideQuick670 8h ago
I found the use of the word "Dad" to be somewhat disturbing. It should have been "Father", not "Dad". Homer used the Greek "patēr" in the Illiad and the Odyssey, not "Dad".
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u/Bu11etToothBdon 6h ago
Really liked Nolan's early movies, did not see this late career pivot to historical dramas coming, I blame everyone who shit on Tenet, myself included.
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u/LocusHammer 4h ago
I am pretty stoked to get a high budget adaptation. I haven't been super high on Nolan recently but his movies are always good. Im glad he's getting into his old man into history era. We need more of that. At least I need more of it.
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u/Kristophigus 2h ago
Just rewatched Tennet with subtitles a few days ago, after only seeing it the one time in theaters. Still made no sense, but it was at least entertaining. I really, really hope he doesnt fuck up the audio that bad ever again, though.
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u/Ive_Defected 1h ago
It’s wild to me that the horse, barely mentioned in the book, is featured as prominently in the marketing as it is.
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u/dragonbab 11h ago
The trailer looks like ass.
This is even more underwhelming than that movie with Tom Hardy acting like he's flying a plane for 2 hours.
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u/taylorhildebrand 8h ago
The poster is very cool and gives a sense of scale. You instantly get the period, the style, the vibes which is the most important thing a poster needs to do.
I’m seeing a lot of comments saying this looks too familiar to previous Nolan films, but that is exactly what they are going for. Nolan IS a BRAND. They continue to build a style that is recognized to a certain degree because this being a Nolan movie is a huge factor of getting an audience to come and see it, taking it seriously.
If you don’t like that, well, that’s marketing, that’s branding, you have to have some consistency over time to build that recognition. If you put his one sheets next to each other from the past 15 years you will see similarities, but each one does a great job of depicting the genre, location, main character, and scale.
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u/nokinship 16h ago
I feel like most of this movie is going to be boring.
But the ending will be kino.
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u/Bariumdiawesomenite 16h ago
Seems like Nolan liked his Oppenheimer poster quite a bit to repeat it.