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The Odyssey · written by Christopher Nolan · 2026
Scene 133 of 199 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two
Twenty years after leaving for the Trojan War, Odysseus fights his way home across a hostile sea only to find his kingdom overrun — and must return in disguise to reclaim his wife, his son, and his throne from the suitors laying siege to his house.
Ithaca frozen in a decade of waiting: Penelope weaving, the suitors feasting, Telemachus unheard.
Telemachus needs proof of his father's fate; Penelope needs the throne secured before the suitors force her hand.
Telemachus sails from Ithaca in secret, crossing into the unfamiliar world beyond his mother's house.
Odysseus's captivity with Calypso opens the parallel strand — a man who has forgotten his own family, slowly remembering his way home.
Circe begins transforming Odysseus's starving men into pigs mid-feast — the crew's appetite becomes literal cost, and Odysseus is forced to act alone.
On Calypso's beach, Odysseus admits he doesn't want to remember the truth — he's happy staying with her.
Nearing the Sirens, Odysseus has his men plug their ears with wax but has himself tied to the mast so he alone can hear their song.
The crew spots the ominous whitecaps of the whirlpool monster Charybdis ahead.
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Eurylochus spots a LOW-LYING ISLAND.
EURYLOCHUS
I'm going to put in there.
Odysseus, sitting, looks over at the island.
ODYSSEUS
That's the Sun God's isle. We can't land there.
The crew starts to COMPLAIN OPENLY.
EURYLOCHUS
We need repairs. These men are exhausted. They've lost six shipmates. We're going to put in and rest on dry land.
THE MEN CHEER.
ODYSSEUS
You're all going to die.
They QUIET, looking at Odysseus, WHO STANDS...
ODYSSEUS (CONT'D)
You asked me what Tiresias told me. He said you're all going to die.
EURYLOCHUS
If we land on that island?
ODYSSEUS
If you slaughter the Sun God's cattle, which graze on that island, you'll all die.
EURYLOCHUS
That's fine. We'll put in and cook our own provisions. We'll pick fruit and get water. Nothing more.
Odysseus shakes his head, DESPAIRING. Looking at the DESPERATION of his crew, the water leaking into the hull, he can see HE HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO AGREE...
ODYSSEUS
Swear to it. All of you. Swear you won't touch the cattle on this island.
The men NOD at Odysseus. Eurylochus guides the ship in, grounding the boat on the sand. There are COWS GRAZING just above the sand on the EDGE OF THE FOREST.
EURYLOCHUS
See, the wind took us right in. We'll rest up, do the repairs and set out as soon as the wind changes.
As the men JUMP OFF the ship, POINTING and LAUGHING at the cattle, Odysseus looks at the FLAG FLAPPING HARD AT THE ONSHORE BREEZE, perturbed...
CALYPSO (V.O.)
Did the crew keep their promise?
ODYSSEUS (V.O.)
Yes. For a long time. But the wind never changed...