India, Nov. 22 -- Christopher Nolan has revealed that he did not drop his upcoming film 'The Odyssey' out of nowhere; the seeds go back more than 20 years. In an interview with Empire Magazine, Nolan said Warner Bros. originally brought him on board for Troy, long before he ever imagined building a blockbuster career around Gotham City. The studio later pulled the movie back, and that shuffle eventually led him to Batman Begins.

Nolan told Empire that the studio hired him when Wolfgang Petersen briefly stepped aside from Troy. "I was originally hired by Warner Bros. to direct 'Troy.' Wolfgang Petersen had developed it, and so when the studio decided not to proceed with his superhero movie 'Batman Vs Superman', he wanted it back," he said...