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Box office success of ‘The Odyssey’ proves audiences crave classics — not woke Hollywood nonsense

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As “The Odyssey” shatters box-office expectations, maybe “woke” Hollywood will learn something from the film’s success: Audiences want familiar stories, told in entertaining ways.

Christopher Nolan’s star-studded retelling of the Greek epic beat expectations, pulling in $264.1 million on its first weekend in theaters worldwide, and $124.5 million in the United States alone.

Around the country, theaters were packed for the first time in years; seats for the IMAX version were near-impossible to find, except in the wee hours of the morning.

Before the film’s release, the buzz in some conservative circles was negative because Nolan had transgender Elliot Page play a Greek warrior, among other “non-traditional” castings.

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