Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins helped the filmmaker make the jump from gritty, thrilling stories and into the big-budget space, though the filmmaker recently recalled how he was attached to 2004's Troy before Warner Bros. gave that project to Wolfgang Peterson. Despite the star power of Troy, that action-adventure has largely been forgotten, but Nolan's close call with swords and sandals helped ignite an interest in that genre that he's finally diving deep into with The Odyssey. With Peterson having more clout at the time of Troy, it's hard to imagine what Nolan's take on the material would have been with likely limited resources and how a possible underperformance would have impacted Nolan's entire future. While Nolan has previously revealed his close call with Troy, his recent comment

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