The MCU turned superheroes into the dominant commodity of Hollywood cinema, but perhaps the most influential movies in the genre during the 2000s didn't feature a Marvel hero at all. Christopher Nolan's three Batman movies — referred to these days as the Dark Knight trilogy — reinvented the idea of what a comic book story could look and feel like

Christopher Nolan has made four sci-fi films throughout his career, and one detailed fan theory speculates that these take place in a shared universe.

The movie only recently started filming and is still more than a year away, but each little detail that leaks out from the production makes me do a Kombucha meme spit-take. The excellent tactician Odysseus,

Director Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, is gearing up to be his biggest blockbuster yet, as there are many exciting facts and rumors about this epic film.

We already know what role Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Charlize Theron and the rest of the cast will play in Nolan's The Odyssey (Oppenheimer).

All of which is to say, for someone with such a notably wacky outside-the-box storytelling track record, it’s a bit surprising that Nolan’s next movie is seemingly a straight-