Trent Horn’s latest video puts the Odyssey cast dispute front and center, and he says he will not watch Christopher Nolan’s rendition of The Odyssey because of it. His objection is tied to Elliot Page’s role and to a larger argument about transgenderism, while the film has also pushed readers back toward the source text.
Horn says Christians should avoid the film because of what he calls its normalization of transgenderism through the casting of Elliot Page. In his view, that is enough to make the movie a hard pass, even though the project is being discussed as more than a simple adaptation.
Sinon in Nolan
Page plays Sinon in Nolan’s movie, and the character is described as a young boy drafted into war after being coerced into taking someone else’s place. Sinon is then sent on a suicide mission that ends in death and a descent into Hades, which makes the part harder to frame as a simple celebration of the person cast in it.
That complication matters because the same piece says Nolan cannot be accused of driving an ideological agenda. It also says Nolan does not present Page’s character as though transgenderism were just another norm in the story, and that Sinon is not a hero to be admired. The criticism, then, is aimed less at a single scene than at the meaning viewers may take from the casting itself.
Odyssey sales jump seventy-six percent
Odyssey book sales are up seventy-six percent, and e-book and audiobook versions are described as skyrocketing in usage. That is the cleanest business result in the story: the film did not only provoke a culture-war response, it also sent people back to classic literature.
The article says the writer searched for the source material and other ancient texts after watching The Odyssey, which is the kind of downstream effect studios rarely get credit for when a film lands in the middle of a casting fight. For readers who care about the controversy, the practical takeaway is simple: Horn is urging Christians to opt out, while the movie is still driving new attention to the text it adapts.
Helen, Agamemnon, Achilles
Helen of Troy is described as looking nothing like the ancient Greek ideal of beauty, and Agamemnon is said to have an eerily Batman-like presence. Achilles also appears in the article’s wider discussion, which signals that the film’s cast and character choices are being read alongside the source material rather than in isolation.
For viewers and Christians deciding whether to engage with the film, the dispute now sits on two tracks at once: one over Horn’s objection to Page’s casting, and another over the surge in interest the movie has created for The Odyssey itself. The unanswered piece is the exact set of casting decisions and scenes that prompted the criticism, but Horn’s position is already clear enough for anyone weighing whether to buy a ticket or stick with the book.
