At its core, The Odyssey is a story about a man simply trying to get home. This is ground that Christopher Nolan has explored in very different circumstances in Interstellar , in which mind-bending dimensional physics allowed Matthew McConaughey’s astronaut Cooper to contact the daughter he left behind, Murphy, via a realm beyond space or time. But now, in his adaptation of The Odyssey , he’s getting right down to the original homecoming story – that of Odysseus (Matt Damon), who after years of battling away from his loved ones, spends ten years venturing back to Ithaca. A decade that, let’s just say, doesn’t go smoothly.
But who is he doing it all for? Allow Empire to present exclusive looks at the people Odysseus is heading back to. First up, you can see above the very first i

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