Harmonic Odyssey: The Five Gods

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey movie adapts Homer through a new eye that brings a sense of horror and existential angst to the story – and some humor too. It may not be a perfect movie, but it’s a pretty great moviegoing experience all the same.

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan's newest movie, The Odyssey, releases on July 17, and ahead of that, an official companion game is now available on Roblox. A survival sailing adventure game, The Odyssey: Defy the Gods, is out now on Roblox, and it's free. Players will assemble a crew, ration supplies, and "appease the gods for the right of safe passage" across the ocean. In the game, players will scavenge mysterious worlds to find food and crew that have gone missing. Out on the ocean, players have to survive in the elements like Odysseus did during his perilous journey. Defy the Gods is out now o

While there's no canon for the mythological hero, several authors and poets in the centuries since offer differing stories of what happened.

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey stands as one of the best recent examples of the kind of film that a large studio budget rarely allows in the modern day: a singular artistic vision in a blockbuster featuring a world you can believe in.

Scalpers are successfully reselling tickets to The Odyssey in 70MM IMAX for hundreds of dollars.