Jamie Lovett is a graduate of MTSU’s Journalism program who followed his lifelong passion for comics and related media into a career writing about pop culture. He has over a decade of experience writing about television, movies, comics, video games, and more, and recently co-founded the comics-focused newsletter/site Weird City Media.
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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is officially rated R. The adaptation of the ancient Greek epic is the fifth movie in Nolan’s 28-year directing career to earn such a rating.
Nolan’s first three movies (Following, Memento, and Insomnia) were each rated R, but then Nolan began making bigger studio movies starting with Batman Begins in 2005. Those big-budget projects needed to ensure the largest possible audience and aimed for less severe ratings.
However, now that Nolan has secured his reputation as a director who can still pull an audience with his name, he seems to be returning to his previous form. Oppenheimer was Nolan’s first R-rated movie in 20 years, and now The Odyssey makes it two back-to-back.
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