Christopher Nolan's next film hasn't reached theaters yet, but Kalshi traders already expect it to become another critical hit.
Kalshi’s Rotten Tomatoes market on The Odyssey currently forecasts a 92% score, well inside Fresh territory.
What’s it about?
The film adapts Homer's epic poem following King Odysseus (Matt Damon) as he struggles to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
Of course, the journey is far from a simple one for Odysseus. He’ll have to face legendary, deadly mythological creatures like the bloodthirsty Cyclops, the perilous Sirens, and the cannibalistic Laestrygonians.
Nolan has spent more than two decades developing his vision for adapting The Odyssey. The director of Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy told Time Magazine that he's given it a lot of thought down to the smallest detail.
Nolan described the famous scene where Odysseus and his men hide in the giant Trojan horse. He doesn’t see it in the conventional sense as a giant wooden horse on wheels being wheeled into the city.
“If the horse were sinking into the sand and about to be swept away by the tide, the Trojans would never believe there could be in anybody in there,” Nolan said. “They would be rescuing this thing from the waves and dragging it into the city as a prize. It wouldn’t be on wheels, like a roller skate.”
What are the critics saying?
It’s still too early for movie critics to push their reviews of Nolan’s epic new movie. The review embargo doesn’t end until Wednesday. But the social media embargo has lifted and some critics are already posting glowing comments about the film.
Jazz Tangcay, the senior artisans editor for Variety, praised Nolan for adapting Homer's epic poem into a piece of cinematic work as great as the source material. She also applauded the film's cinematography led by Hoyte van Hoytema and the score penned by Ludwig Göransson.
“You could feel the passion in his storytelling,” Tangcay wrote. “You feel the passion in the crafts and the acting.”
Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes contributor Erik Davis called Nolan’s film “an absolute triumph” and a “crowning cinematic achievement from one of the great filmmakers of our time.”
“The production design is incredible, the action is breathtaking, and the scale is unlike anything he’s ever done before,” Davis wrote.
Den of Geek entertainment journalist David Crow called The Odyssey an ambitious cinematic achievement that attempts “to condense nearly all of Homer inside of three hours. But it also tackles [it] with more heart than any Nolan film since Interstellar, his greatest muse.”
Discussing Film managing editor Andrew J. Salazar gave props to Samantha Morton for her performance as the powerful sorceress Circe as “perhaps the best of the entire film and we’re going to be talking about it for years to come. If you know, you know.”
Those enthusiastic first reactions help explain why Kalshi traders continue to forecast one of the year's highest Rotten Tomatoes scores.
The takeaway:
Kalshi markets now predict:
The Odyssey’s Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%
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