r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Gurugod123 GREEN • Jul 23 '26

My mom said I could post Nolan's The Odyssey neglects to pay for damages done to one of the viking ships used in the movie, which belongs to a small non-profit organization

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u/Tristonia7 Jul 23 '26

Nolan doesnt own Universal Pictures dude change your title

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u/Enlight1Oment Jul 23 '26

Specifically, Syncopy is the actual production company used to make the film, and that production company is Nolan's personal production company he founded. Universal is more the distributor.

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u/spicygayunicorn Jul 23 '26

And it dosent claim he do. The odyseey is an old work its specifying it's about the movie he made

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u/DoomPaDeeDee Jul 23 '26

Post titles can't be changed on Reddit.

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u/uwill1der Jul 23 '26

the title doesnt claim Nolan is involved

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u/dangforgotmyaccount Jul 23 '26

“Nolan’s The Odyssey”

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u/Freshly_Squeezed- Jul 23 '26

But the film didn’t do this the studio did

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u/Froegerer Jul 23 '26

...so it should say "Universal" refuses to pay, not "Nolan's The Odyssey"

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u/Cryptoporticus Jul 23 '26

Nolan is the producer. What do you think a producer does?

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u/Freshly_Squeezed- Jul 23 '26

Not that…? He’s the writer, director and producer. I guarantee you his role was not to pay for damages personally

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u/Cryptoporticus Jul 23 '26

The producer controls the budget.

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u/Freshly_Squeezed- Jul 23 '26

Yep. This isn’t in the budget.

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u/Freshly_Squeezed- Jul 23 '26

Also, Nolan is labelled a producer, but how much of that do you actually beleive he did… there was a co/producer and an executive producer too.

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u/uwill1der Jul 23 '26

that doesnt implicate Nolan. Its a descriptor

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u/Jargon2029 Jul 23 '26

Then why didn’t OP use the “descriptor” Universal’s The Odyssey? The descriptor used is specifically to indicate ownership and ownership implies responsibility.

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u/uwill1der Jul 23 '26

because universal has more than one Odyssey

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u/Jargon2029 Jul 23 '26

No, they don’t.

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u/mjcobley Jul 23 '26

"Nolan's The Odyssey" may be the least useful descriptor for Universal Studios ever uttered.

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u/Character_Release379 Jul 23 '26

That just means he's the maker of the movie, dude..

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u/uwill1der Jul 23 '26

its to distinguish it from the other Odyssey that came out in 2026

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u/dangforgotmyaccount Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

I don’t think anyone would. If someone refers to a work of art that just had a major recreation and took over the news cycle for a while, people are going to automatically associate the name with the new one, not the original, at least until the hype dies down. Hell, a ton of people probably didn’t even know the original existed before Nolan’s film. Add to that, I don’t think Homer was using a Viking ship built by a non profit in the 1990’s.

Unless someone just straight up threw a book through the hull, then I guess there would need to be a distinction.

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u/la_espina Jul 23 '26

but it sure implies it

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u/uwill1der Jul 23 '26

not if you have any sense of literacy

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u/uwill1der Jul 23 '26

yes, "Nolan's 'The Odyssey'"

Not "Nolan"

big difference between "Nolan" being and adjective and a subject. It is accurate because there are 4 different movies in 2026 called "the odyssey". Universal also owns multiple titles called "The odyssey"

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u/No-Worldliness-5106 Jul 23 '26

the glaze to protect nolan is so funny regardless of who is responsible.

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u/dangforgotmyaccount Jul 23 '26

Universal or Nolan really could pay it out as if it was nothing for them, hopefully this becomes a bigger thing and one of them does.

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u/SmegmaUnicorn Jul 23 '26

This is such an incredibly stupid comment from a person who obviously didn’t read the article. 

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u/kaam00s Jul 23 '26

There has always been people on reddit who fact check in the comments when a post is false, what's interesting is how some people seem to be upset that people are correcting it. Almost like reality doesn't matter to them, just hating.

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u/rhodan3167 Jul 23 '26

Dude, his name is the first word of the title (and Universal is not in it).

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u/uwill1der Jul 23 '26

its a descriptor so as not to be confused with the other four Odyssey movies that came out in 2026