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Christopher Nolan Says He Cast Travis Scott in 'The Odyssey' Due to Story Being 'Analogous to Rap'

Complex·Joe Price·21 days ago
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Travis Scott is scheduled to appear in Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated The Odyssey , and the writer-director has opened up about what the rapper’s role entails. In an interview with Time ahead of the release of The Odyssey this summer, Nolan shared that Scott will feature in the film as a bard, a storyteller or a poet of sorts. This reveal, notably, arguably lends itself to previously shared fan theories that Scott may be playing Demodocus. “I cast him because I wanted to nod towards the idea that this story has been handed down as oral poetry, which is analogous to rap,” said Nolan, who previously enlisted Scott to make an original song for Tenet with composer-producer Ludwig Göransson . In the same interview, Göransson added that he was told by Nolan to avoid using an orchestra when composing the score for the adaptation of the Homer epic. “It’s not like the orchestra existed back then,” he said.…

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