Christopher Nolan Shocks Jon Stewart Explaining How 'Oppenheimer' Helped Him Make 'The Odyssey'

"The Odyssey" director Christopher Nolan shocked "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart Monday night when he said he would not have been able to make his new Homer adaptation were it not for his last film, "Oppenheimer." "'Oppenheimer' had way more success than I think we had any right to expect," Nolan told Stewart, when asked why he chose "The Odyssey" as his follow-up to his 2023 Best Picture winner, noting, "That gives you an opportunity to get something made that you might not otherwise be able to get made." Culturally paired with Greta Gerwig's "Barbie," . . .