Watch Ludwig Göransson work on the score for “The Odyssey” here.
When director Christopher Nolan set out to adapt The Odyssey for the big screen, he didn’t just want the film to look like ancient Greece – he wanted it to sound like it, too. When he approached composer Ludwig Göransson about the score for the film, which opens on July 17, he asked the Oscar winner to find authentic instruments. A new featurette, premiering here, shows how Göransson created a Homeric score using a lyre, an aulos and bronze instruments – fitting the Bronze Age as a historical setting.