The Odyssey director Christopher Nolan reveals why he never takes the safe road

NEW YORK CITY — More than 20 years ago, Christopher Nolan was hired to direct Brad Pitt’s swords-and-sandals epic Troy.

Loosely adapted from Homer’s Iliad, the film depicted the decade-long Trojan War and featured legendary figures from Greek mythology like Achilles, Odysseus, Agamemnon and more. “That didn’t work out,” Nolan, 55, says in an interview […]