Apple TV Officially Resurrects Christopher Nolan’s 169-Minute Sci-Fi Masterpiece

It’s been another remarkable year for this century’s defining filmmaker, Christopher Nolan. The third-highest-grossing director of all time produced yet another ambitious feat of filmmaking for viewers across the world to indulge in, as he adapted Homer‘s ancient Greek epic The Odyssey, for the big screen. The film proved so popular that it became his biggest success yet, earning $1.8 billion worldwide and becoming the highest-grossing movie in Nolan’s filmography, surpassing his only other billion-dollar movies, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.

This so-called “unrivaled cinematic spectacle,” as it was dubbed in Joe Schmidt‘s review for Collider, couldn’t have reached those heights without the assembly of a star-packed cast. Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Jon Bernthal, and Zendaya all feature in one of Nolan’s most talent-filled lineups, with the lead role of the King of Ithaca going to Matt Damon, who had been part of several Nolan projects in the past, including as NASA astronaut Dr. Mann in the generation-defining sci-fi effort Interstellar.

The Odyssey‘s Damon and Hathaway also star in Interstellar, which is led by the brilliant Matthew McConaughey, who most recently starred in Apple TV’s The Lost Bus. This dystopian future-set epic was a huge hit with audiences and critics, unsurprisingly making its mark on the Academy Awards. At the 87th ceremony in 2015, Interstellar won just one of its five nominations, with Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, and Scott Fisher taking home the Best Visual Effects trophy. 11 years on, Interstellar is a hit again. At the time of writing, the film is one of the ten most-watched on Apple TV in the U.S.

Four sides, four completely different answers to the same question about
how a galaxy should work. Here is where you would have signed up, what it would ask of you, and what
it would give you back.

You belong with the side that has almost nothing and keeps going
anyway. The Rebellion is not a glamorous posting, and anybody who tells you otherwise has
not seen what it actually costs the people inside it.

• You are wired to notice when something is wrong and to say so, which makes you useful
  here and awkward almost everywhere else.
• Andor is the best thing Star Wars has made in years precisely because it shows the
  unglamorous half, which is the meetings, the paperwork and the people who never get a
  medal.
• Your kind of courage is the ordinary kind, done repeatedly, by somebody who is fully
  aware of the odds.
• The Alliance wins because enough people decided separately that they were finished being
  quiet about it.

You belong to the machine, and the uncomfortable truth is that
the machine mostly runs on people who are competent, orderly and convinced they are doing
their job properly. Very few of them think of themselves as villains.

• You want structure, clear expectations and a way to measure whether you are doing well,
  none of which the other three factions can offer you.
• The Empire is frightening because of how ordinary it is on the inside, which is the
  single smartest thing Star Wars has ever done with it.
• Your risk is the quiet one, which is looking at something wrong and deciding it is
  somebody else’s department.
• You would be genuinely good at this, and that is exactly the part worth thinking about.

You belong to the people who lost their planet and kept their
code anyway. Mandalorian culture is not a nationality so much as a promise, and anybody who
makes that promise and keeps it is one of them.

• You are loyal to people rather than to institutions, which is why an organisation chart
  has never once told you who you actually owe.
• A code only counts when it costs you something, and you are the sort of person who would
  pay rather than bend it.
• Mandalorians spend the whole saga arguing about what being one even means, and that
  argument is far more interesting than the armour.
• The Mandalorian and Grogu took the creed to cinemas over Memorial Day 2026, the first
  Star Wars film in seven years.

You belong to the syndicate, where nobody wastes your time
pretending the galaxy runs on ideals. Crimson Dawn deals in leverage, and it is the only
faction on this list that would tell you so to your face.

• You read a room for who owes what, and you are usually right, which is a talent that
  makes people slightly wary of you.
• Qi’ra is the most interesting thing to come out of Solo, because she is the one
  character who learned the actual lesson about power.
• You would rather be the person setting the terms than the person being told what the
  terms are.
• The catch is simple enough. In a syndicate, everybody is leverage, including you, and
  the smart ones never forget that part.

‘Interstellar’ Was Another Box Office Smash for Christopher Nolan

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As one of this century’s defining sci-fi movies, it’s no surprise to learn that Interstellar was a massive box office hit. Against a reported budget of $165 million, the movie made almost $650 million worldwide. This might only be a fraction of The Odyssey‘s haul, but let that take nothing away from the huge success of Interstellar at the box office. By the end of 2014, it was the 11th highest-grossing film of that year in the world.

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