Word’s come in from Variety that Christopher Nolan plans to begin production on The Odyssey in Sicily in roughly two months, specifically on the island of Favignana, known in ancient times as Aegusa,

Christopher Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be partly filmed in Sicily which, according to scholars, was a location for Ulysses’ wanderings in the epic composed by Homer around 8th century BCE.

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With the principal cast of Christopher Nolan's next film, an adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey, now in place, pre-production on the project is beginning

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