Nolan’s Odyssey will offer “Homer’s Founding Saga on IMAX Movie Screens” for the first time and will be a remake of the ancient Greek epic poem first written in the eighth or seventh century B. C.
Christopher Nolan’s next film ‘The Odyssey’ is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film technology. The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX film screens for the first time and opens in theaters everywhere on July 17, 2026.
For those unfamiliar, The Odyssey follows the journey of Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, who travels the world for 10 years in an attempt to get home after the Trojan War. While Universal didn’t reveal any further details on Nolan’s The Odyssey, reports have already been painting a picture of the stacked cast the film will have.
Matt Damon was the first person reported to be in talks to star in Nolan’s next film, which marks his return to Universal after 2023’s Oppenheimer, which won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.
In addition to Damon, reports imply that he may be joined by Charlize Theron, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o and Robert Pattinson.
We are very excited about Nolan’s next film as we gave Oppenheimer a 10/10. In our review we said: “A steadily falling biopic, Oppenheimer is the ultimate Christopher Nolan summation, though it’s no easy work, with themes of guilt expressed in giant fashion through IMAX apocalyptic nightmares that become more huge and intimate as time goes by.
“A disturbing and desirable vision of what humanity is capable of provoking itself, whether it is its innovation or its ability to justify any atrocity. “
For more, see Nolan’s public break with Warner Bros. and which film will be the most productive of 2024.
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Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? is my favorite version of The Odyssey so far. John Goodman as the cyclops is off the chain.
The only literature I was forced to read in high school, I enjoyed reading. I hope justice has been served!
It can be epic. like the epic LOTR.
Except maybe he should turn it into a 2 part epic and do the Iliad first.
This may go down as one of the greatest Greek epics of all time.
Bleh. Me you lost the word Zendaya. Gurl can’t act to save his life.
Please know more than Tenet.
I have enjoyed The Odyssey and feel that Nolan has a great chance of succeeding. The challenge is how to do justice to the entire Odyssey in a single film?
If anyone can do justice to an epic like this, faithful to the original but updated for a modern audience, it’s Nolan. I look ahead to hear the details. It seems like it could be worth 2 parts, rather than one incredibly long movie, but I accept as true that he must make this decision.
I hope it’s a smart movie because it’s been a while since Nolan made a smart movie.
I’m surprised he’s making a mythological film.
Where’s Sean Bean ?shame Not a sequel to Wolfgang Petersons Troy!!!
I didn’t expect that from Nolan. Now I understand why he praises Gladiator II with so much praise.
I just hope this is a true ancient Greek swords and sandals epic and a modern take on the story.
Does this mean that Matt Damon will be Ulysses? He turns out to be the right age for the role.
Exciting stuff. I do wonder if anyone will ever take on Virgil’s Aeneid. It’s pretty epic in its own right, being a Roman origin story inspired by Homer’s work, taking the perspective of the Trojans who flee Troy as the Greeks sack the city. They later go on to settle the Italian peninsula with some very Game of Thrones-like power struggles with the factions already living there.
It’s going to be another bust for Nolan, if he can pull it off there’s probably not much he can’t do.
It’s unexpected. I am very interested.
Something tells me that there will be no indignation at the absence of Greek actors. . .
It will be adapted for a fashion 😉
Nice, maybe we’ll finally get a worthy successor to the movie with Kirk Douglas after a 100 years.
I got a beautiful view from my apartment in Kansas that’s perfect for this movie.
I can’t help but think of the PBS show Wishbone and it’s telling of the Odyssey.
Completely unexpected, but really exciting. I do wish that there was an accompanying Iliad film though
What does this have to do with armored helicopters?
Who else thinks Sean Bean should be Odysseus like in Troy?
Better make plasticine or it’s useless.