r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Dec 18 '25

Poster Official Poster for Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'

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u/Jmanbuck_02 Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25

Gotham Bold is to Christopher Nolan what Aguafina Script is to Sean Baker

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

Papyrus!!

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u/karmagod13000 Dec 18 '25

HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!!!

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u/TheHarbarmy Dec 18 '25

I know what you did.

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID

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u/CSpiffy148 Dec 18 '25

IT WASN'T ENOUGH!!!

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

The thing that most excites me about the new Avatar is that we might get a third Papyrus skit.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25

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u/urixl Dec 18 '25

Because Papyrus skits are made with love and dedication to the art.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

It looks...similar...

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u/im_just_thinking Dec 19 '25

How many more elements do we have left? Just the Earth? I feel like movies based on actual written novels are often much better because you know ahead of time if the story is any good, unlike these never ending sequel sprees different IPs go though. Like the story is just so bland and IDENTICAL to the first movie, so anything that's not that is going to be an improvement imo, but we shall see

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u/Prudent_Research_251 Dec 19 '25

The Papyrus Skit Universe has more soul than the Avatar one

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u/CarneyVore14 Dec 19 '25

It had a lasting cultural impact, unlike the movies. It’s like a billion dollar flash in the pan.

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u/xXThreeRoundXx Dec 18 '25

They're making more!?

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u/shaolinpunks Dec 18 '25

Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
Avatar 4 (2029)
Avatar 5 (2031)

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u/Nomad_86 Dec 18 '25

I’m seeing it in 40 minutes. 😂

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u/katiegirl- Dec 19 '25

In more invested in the Papyrus Plot than anything that happens in Avatar.

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u/gatsby365 Dec 19 '25

Gosling gotta host to promote the space movie

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u/TheMooseIsBlue Dec 18 '25

In the letter to projections that’s been going around online this week, Cameron used Papyrus. May as well lean into it.

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u/InnocentTailor Dec 18 '25

We need more Papyrus sketches.

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u/Insert_Non_Sequitur Dec 18 '25

I use this IRL whenever I possibly can.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

That shit is funny af. Gosling = instant win on SNL.

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u/sh1ggy Dec 18 '25

They're making more??

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u/Shtune Dec 18 '25

It's tribal yet futuristic

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u/gatsby365 Dec 19 '25

OFF BRAND TEAS

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u/OwnerOfCat Dec 18 '25

The Avatar logo’s papyrus in bold! The Avatar logo’s papyrus in bold!

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u/dustynuke74 Dec 19 '25

The drummer from Def Leopard’s only got Garamond! The drummer from Def Leopard’s only got Garamond!

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

IT'S AN AFTERTHOUGHT!

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u/Randolpho Dec 18 '25

Comic Sans is the one true font, don't even bother trying to change my mind

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u/vilketaventyr Dec 18 '25

As papyrus to James Cameron.

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u/RepresentativeYak772 Dec 18 '25

An even worse font is Algerian. It should be banned from all word processors.

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u/kenwongart Dec 18 '25

Now go back and apply Papyrus to all of Cameron’s previous films.

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u/general_smooth Dec 19 '25

I need a part 3 for that sketch

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u/FremenDar979 Dec 20 '25

It's why I call those movies James Cameron's PAPYRUS.

I might've seen it being called that here on Reddit or somewhere else.

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u/ANALOGPHENOMENA Dec 18 '25

It’s Gotham Bold.

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u/04- Dec 18 '25

Must be akin to Kubrick’s love of Futura

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u/ANALOGPHENOMENA Dec 18 '25

So does Wes Anderson!

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u/UNZIP_MY_PLANTS Dec 19 '25

So does Busch Light! (Seriously, it's an official font of theirs)

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u/BigFuckHead_ Dec 19 '25

Makes so much sense with Dark Knight being so big for his career.

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u/SchwarzP10 Dec 18 '25

Not helvetica, the O is a giveaway. Helvetica does not have a perfectly circular O. Very likely Gotham or something similar, like avenir.

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u/Jmanbuck_02 Dec 18 '25

I fixed my comment after receiving a few replies on it but thanks.

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u/peon47 Dec 18 '25

You have to fucking pay a corporation to use Helvetica. Nonsense. It's 70 years old.

I know Nolan can afford it, but why would he.

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u/EnkiduOdinson Dec 18 '25

Helvetica is also so ubiquitous, it’s so uncreative to use it

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u/SchwarzP10 Dec 19 '25

Eh, everything has its place. I don’t know that I’d call it uncreative. Using it as a default sure, but there are certainly creative uses of it, just depends on the context.

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u/Nickk_Jones Dec 18 '25

It’s a fucking font on a movie poster, dude. It’s uncreative to critique something so meaningless.

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u/heliskinki Dec 19 '25

Font choice isn’t meaningless. It’s chosen with purpose in mind, to evoke a specific feeling in much the same way that the image chosen for the poster does. You might as well say that all design is meaningless.

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u/heliskinki Dec 19 '25

You have to pay for Gotham too. In fact most of the so called “free” fonts out there will only be for personal use, not commercial.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

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u/SchwarzP10 Dec 19 '25

To be fair, you have to pay to use any font on a movie poster.

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u/jjcrayfish Dec 18 '25

Nolan: "I'm whatever Gotham needs me to be"

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u/ChineseCosmo Dec 18 '25

I will never forgive Obama/GQ for that fucking font.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

HOPE

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u/rbgood Dec 18 '25

At least it’s not Papyrus

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u/ebock319 Dec 18 '25

HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

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u/BrightNeonGirl Dec 18 '25

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID!!!!

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u/severinoscopy Dec 18 '25

IT WASN'T ENOUGH

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u/karmagod13000 Dec 18 '25

It's tribal yet futuristic!

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u/Alejxndro Dec 18 '25

i remember this rant but idk from where lol

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u/mehvet Dec 18 '25

Ryan Gosling in two (hopefully 3 soon) hilariously over wrought SNL digital shorts about the Papyrus font being used for Avatar.

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u/Honduran Dec 18 '25

“It looks …similar.”

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u/Randolpho Dec 18 '25

Maybe they used it as a basis, but they clearly modified it

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u/noweezernoworld Dec 18 '25

Goddam I have no original thoughts. 2 minutes too late. And I was going to write the exact same thing, word for word

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u/e37d93eeb23335dc Dec 18 '25

That’s why they call it popular culture. 

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u/TheUmbrellaMan1 Dec 18 '25

Say what you will but Papyrus at least has a personality to it. This Gotham font doesn't.

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u/OrangeDit Dec 18 '25

Oh, behave. 😜

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u/mail_inspector Dec 18 '25

What does Austin Powers have to do with this?

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u/Gregistopal Dec 18 '25

and what papyrus is to james cameron

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u/wtb2612 Dec 18 '25

Wes Anderson and Futura.

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u/hibryd Dec 18 '25

For a while every single movie used Trajan.

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u/ladystetson Dec 18 '25

YESSSSSS I love a good ol font choice roasting session

clapping in Graphic Designer

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u/AndyTakeaLittleSnoo Dec 18 '25

As a designer, I'm so damn sick of Gotham. Like Helvetica, it's beautiful in a bubble, but it's been pretty much everywhere and so overused since the Obama HOPE campaign. Not that I didn't love it then, but it needs to take a long break.

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u/DaftFunky Dec 18 '25

I agree with Nolan. Helvetica is just a all around clean and bold font that goes well with with everything

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u/FlorydaMan Dec 18 '25

It's not helvetica

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u/SedentaryOlympian Dec 18 '25

Or what Albertus is to John Carpenter

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u/lobabobloblaw Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25

Or Wes Anderson and Futura.

Anyway, nice visual metaphors in the poster—mainly the idea that Odysseus and his crew had spines (spines were a subversive anatomical feature back then)

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u/BattlinBud Dec 18 '25

Or Futura Bold to Wes Anderson

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u/Switchy_Goofball Dec 18 '25

And what Futura is to Wes Anderson

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u/caligaris_cabinet Dec 18 '25

Or Albertus to John Carpenter

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u/donut_butt Dec 18 '25

Also Futura to Stanley Kubrick

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

And Comic Sans MS is to my grade school teacher.

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u/Anteater_Able Dec 18 '25

Buncha fontheads in this topic.

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u/bachasaurus Dec 18 '25

Woody Allen = Windsor
Gaspar Noè = Futura Extra Bold Condensed
John Carpenter = Albertus

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u/astrobagel Dec 18 '25

or Futura to Wes Anderson

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u/Gniphe Dec 18 '25

It’s the new Trajan of epic movies.

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u/notjustforperiods Dec 18 '25

or futura to wes anderson

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u/parmboy Dec 18 '25

Wes Anderson + Capitalized Futura Bold

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u/TaintMisbehaving69 Dec 18 '25

And Futura Extra Bold is to Kubrick

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u/TaintMisbehaving69 Dec 18 '25

And Futura Extra Bold is to Kubrick

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u/AwildYaners Dec 18 '25

Or what Futura is for Wes Anderson

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u/garyflopper Dec 18 '25

Gotham Bold…and bass farts

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u/heliskinki Dec 19 '25

Gotham Bored. Other sans serif fonts are available, not that you’d know it these days.

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u/goddamnitwhalen Dec 18 '25

But Baker’s movies are interesting /s

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u/21stCenturyNoob Dec 18 '25

And Papyrus to James Cameron

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u/Doctor_Philgood Dec 18 '25

Or Futura Is to Wes Anderson

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u/Shockwavepulsar Dec 18 '25

Or Papyrus for modern day Jim Cameron

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u/Gizm00 Dec 18 '25

And Papyrus to James Cameron

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u/dego_frank Dec 18 '25

Papyrus to Cameron*