The Internet Said Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey Would Fail — Then This Happened

Before The Odyssey opened, the internet had already decided it would fail. Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy. Elliot Page in the cast. Travis Scott with no acting experience. A Viking longship 2,000 years out of place. Elon Musk posting about a 2,700-year-old poem. Then the film opened. $124.5M domestic. $264.1M global — Christopher Nolan's biggest opening ever. 96% critics. 97% audience — breaking Nolan's own record. A on CinemaScore. The biggest live-action opening of 2026. Sound familiar? A Michael Jackson biopic faced the same opposition — 39% critics, Paris Jackson called it lies — and crossed $1 billion. The pattern is repeating. This is the full breakdown.