Christopher Nolan says he had to change The Odyssey ending from the "grim" original poem

Christopher Nolan has revealed why he changed the ending of The Odyssey compared to the original poem. In Nolan's film, the story ends with Odysseus's triumphant return home and his killing of the suitors, before he and his wife Penelope set sail on another adventure together. Read more in our The Odyssey ending explained. However, in the original Homer, the story concludes with the same return and slaying of the suitors, but Telemachus hangs a group of slave girls who had been sexually involved