Troy | Behind-The-Scenes Troy was being dangled to Christopher Nolan—who had already made well-received films like Insomnia and Memento, but had not yet become a household name. “Nobody really knew him at that time,” Director Wolfgang Petersen said in a recent phone interview with Vanity Fair. (Though, to be fair, Memento did make Nolan a breakout star.) And though it sounds unbelievable now, there was reportedly hesitation over whether Nolan would be better than Petersen to handle a film of Tro