The Michael Knowles Show - January 21, 2026


Michael Knowles Reacts To Christopher Nolan's ＂The Odyssey＂ TRAILER


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7 minutes

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Word count

968

Sentence count

130

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Misogyny

2

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The Daily Wire's own Peter Travers talks about the new Christopher Nolan movie, The Dark Knight, and why he thinks Matt Damon should play Odysseus in it. Plus, the usual suspects are in the news.

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00:00:47.920 I rarely look forward to new movies
00:00:50.980 because they're all the same Marvel slot,
00:00:54.360 which is not only left-wing but also very boring.
00:00:57.300 However, there is a movie that I'm looking forward to.
00:01:00.580 It is directed by Christopher Nolan.
00:01:02.520 I really like Christopher Nolan.
00:01:04.240 Some people think he's the greatest filmmaker ever.
00:01:12.140 I think his movies are good.
00:01:14.440 I've enjoyed them over the years.
00:01:16.060 I'm not a fanboy camping out on the street,
00:01:18.680 but I hear Christopher Nolan.
00:01:20.220 I say, oh, this could be good.
00:01:21.560 And it's about the Odyssey,
00:01:30.940 which is one of the greatest and most important poems ever written.
00:01:34.160 Yeah, there's this guy named Homer from a long time ago.
00:01:41.480 And the Odyssey is the follow-up to the Iliad.
00:01:45.940 And the Odyssey is kind of more exciting.
00:01:48.000 The Iliad's a better poem, but the Odyssey is more exciting.
00:01:50.300 It's shorter and it's faster.
00:01:52.300 And I don't know.
00:01:52.800 So anyway, it's got a good cast, right?
00:01:54.980 Matt Damon.
00:01:56.140 Political views are wrong, but a good actor.
00:01:58.020 Matt Damon plays Odysseus.
00:01:59.400 And Tom Holland is there.
00:02:01.180 I think he plays Telemachus.
00:02:02.720 One of the great lines in all of literature is from Telemachus in the Odyssey,
00:02:07.380 who says it's a wise man who knows his own father.
00:02:10.400 So anyway, I'm looking forward to a movie for the first time probably in years.
00:02:17.240 The trailer is out now.
00:02:19.240 And I, are my hopes just too high?
00:02:22.280 Am I going to be disappointed?
00:02:23.220 Let's find out.
00:02:29.400 After years of war,
00:02:44.320 no one could stand between my men
00:02:46.420 and home.
00:02:51.980 Not even me.
00:03:19.020 Going to see that Cyclops, huh?
00:03:20.760 Tell us to me, you will come back.
00:03:50.740 What if I can't?
00:04:03.660 Dare I say,
00:04:05.420 it looks pretty good.
00:04:07.540 Doesn't it look good?
00:04:08.840 I think we're out of peak woke.
00:04:10.840 I think woke is over.
00:04:12.080 Had this been coming out,
00:04:13.280 Christopher Nolan or not,
00:04:15.020 especially if it were not with Christopher Nolan,
00:04:16.940 had this been coming out three years ago,
00:04:18.780 I'd say this is awful.
00:04:20.220 You know,
00:04:20.380 Anne Hathaway is going to play Odysseus.
00:04:22.200 Matt Damon was going to play the siren.
00:04:24.440 I don't know.
00:04:25.000 The Cyclops would have special privileges,
00:04:28.140 according to the ADA.
00:04:29.620 It would be a disaster.
00:04:31.360 They'd all be black 1.00
00:04:32.180 or Muslim 0.94
00:04:34.160 or indigenous.
00:04:35.660 Or indigenous. 0.95
00:04:37.540 No, this,
00:04:38.880 I feel good about it.
00:04:41.720 Nolan, it was clear,
00:04:42.960 had a little more of a conservative impulse
00:04:44.740 going all the way back to Dark Knight.
00:04:46.600 And so,
00:04:47.100 if you feel good about him,
00:04:48.800 I don't care.
00:04:49.880 Left-wing actors can be in some of the great right-wing movies.
00:04:52.760 I mean, just think of Hail Caesar
00:04:53.760 by the Coen brothers,
00:04:54.620 who are magnificent filmmakers,
00:04:56.000 and clearly a little more on the right.
00:04:58.480 But they'd made that great movie,
00:04:59.560 Hail Caesar,
00:05:00.200 starring George Clooney,
00:05:01.560 who is the poster boy
00:05:02.980 of left-wing Democrat Party
00:05:05.600 darling in Hollywood.
00:05:07.000 Clooney played himself
00:05:08.180 as a bumbling left-wing,
00:05:10.360 taken-in-by-the-communists
00:05:11.640 kind of movie star
00:05:12.380 in probably the most right-wing movie
00:05:14.860 made in the last 50 years,
00:05:16.280 Hail Caesar.
00:05:17.460 So,
00:05:18.460 it can happen.
00:05:19.160 And Matt Damon's a good actor.
00:05:20.780 And who else is in here?
00:05:22.460 Charlize Theron,
00:05:23.140 Robert Pattinson,
00:05:25.100 Zendaya.
00:05:25.800 I still don't really know
00:05:26.800 who Zendaya is.
00:05:28.600 There's one thing to look out for.
00:05:30.360 What?
00:05:31.540 Do you remember someone named
00:05:33.180 Ellen Page,
00:05:34.580 who is now Elliot Page?
00:05:36.000 Yes.
00:05:36.780 She's in the movie,
00:05:37.920 but they don't tell you
00:05:39.040 what character she plays
00:05:41.260 as now a man.
00:05:42.740 She could be Telemachus.
00:05:44.160 You know,
00:05:44.320 Telemachus is like a young, 1.00
00:05:45.960 depends on where in puberty.
00:05:47.600 I guess Telemachus is a little bit older, right?
00:05:49.180 He's got his beard,
00:05:50.060 which is why
00:05:50.700 the mother,
00:05:52.140 the presumed widow
00:05:53.440 of Odysseus
00:05:54.580 is now going to have to marry
00:05:55.780 one of the suitors
00:05:56.560 who's trying to take over the kingdom.
00:05:58.320 But,
00:05:58.800 so it could be Ellen Page
00:06:00.580 as Elliot
00:06:01.200 could be playing Telemachus.
00:06:02.360 But no,
00:06:02.720 they say Telemachus is someone else.
00:06:04.960 There's a Tom Holland.
00:06:05.940 So,
00:06:06.260 I don't know.
00:06:07.200 Is she one of the sirens?
00:06:08.800 They don't say.
00:06:09.660 I think it's a pretty hush-hush.
00:06:10.860 I don't really buy
00:06:12.000 Ellen Page as a siren today. 0.94
00:06:14.360 I don't really buy that.
00:06:15.680 Huh.
00:06:16.720 Who could it be?
00:06:18.000 She's not the Cyclops.
00:06:18.960 She's kind of diminutive.
00:06:19.880 I don't believe.
00:06:22.940 Huh.
00:06:25.040 Yeah,
00:06:25.480 I don't.
00:06:26.640 Well,
00:06:27.120 I guess I'll just have to see it
00:06:28.400 to find out.
00:06:28.840 But that's fine.
00:06:29.520 You know,
00:06:29.800 just because someone
00:06:30.600 has like weird sexual hang-ups
00:06:32.740 doesn't mean
00:06:33.840 they can't be in a movie.
00:06:35.000 I mean,
00:06:35.300 most people in the theater
00:06:36.280 have weird sexual hang-ups.
00:06:37.940 So,
00:06:38.080 if that were disqualifying,
00:06:39.780 you'd lose a lot of great art.
00:06:41.320 It's true of art generally.
00:06:42.620 You know,
00:06:42.860 we would lose Carvaggio
00:06:43.780 and like all of them.
00:06:45.140 So,
00:06:45.920 okay,
00:06:46.400 I'm just reserving judgment.
00:06:48.300 I look forward,
00:06:49.220 when does it come out?
00:06:51.480 Quarter billion dollar budget.
00:06:53.140 Trailer is 39 million views
00:06:54.380 comes out in July.
00:06:55.060 Okay.
00:06:55.520 All right.
00:06:55.840 I'm in.
00:06:56.400 Sign me up.
00:06:57.220 Take my 12 bucks
00:06:58.060 or whatever the movies cost now.
00:06:59.400 See you next time.
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