The anti-DEI crowd claimed the casting of Elliot Page and Lupita Nyong'o would sink the film.
A personal caveat: While the mental gymnastics of the right-wing are as ridiculous, as they infuriating; it also needs to be said that Christopher Nolan is anything but a leftist. This article here does a good job to delve into Nolan's political bend.
If Nolan wasn't such a coward we woulda had Jason Mantzoukas as Odysseus. Now there's an unhinged Greek who placed his infant son befoe a plough to try and get out of the war, pissed off a god and had half his crew turned into pigs