‘The Odyssey’ anoints Christopher Nolan as the most powerful director in Hollywood: this is how Universal stopped Warner Bros. from hiring him0

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• July 22, 2026

Greek mythology is rife with humans becoming immortal, many of them as punishment for tangling with the gods. But not Christopher Nolan, the Mount Olympus star of the mortal world: Hollywood. The opening weekend success of his Imax epic “The Odyssey” cements Nolan as his own kind of myth: a bankable auteur who can capture