Nolan’s Odyssey will bring “Homer’s seminal saga to 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 centuries 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 adventure of Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, who travels the world for 10 years in an attempt to return home after the Trojan War. Although Universal hasn’t revealed any further details about Nolan’s Odyssey, reports have already painted a picture of the stacked cast the film will have.
Matt Damon is the first user 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’re obviously excited about Nolan’s next film as we gave Oppenheimer a 10/10. In our review, we said, “A biopic in constant free fall, Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan’s most abstract yet most exacting work, with themes of guilt writ large through apocalyptic IMAX nightmares that grow both more enormous and more intimate as time ticks on.
“A disturbing and desirable vision of what humanity is capable of achieving on its own, whether its innovation or its ability to justify any atrocity. “
To learn more, check out Nolan’s very public split from Warner Bros. and which film is 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 I’ll make it a two-part epic and do the Iliad first.
This may go down as one of the greatest Greek epics of all time.
Bleh. You lost me at the word Zendaya. Gurl can’t act to save her life.
Please know more than Tenet.
I’ve enjoyed The Odyssey and I feel like 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 fashionable audience, it is Nolan. I can’t wait to hear the details. It seems that this is perhaps worth 2 parts, rather than an incredibly long movie. But I accept as true with him to 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 that I’m making a mythological film.
Isn’t it a sequel to Trojan through Wolfgang Petersons!!
I didn’t expect that from Nolan. Now I understand why he praises Gladiator II so much.
I just hope it’s a proper swords & sandals ancient Greek epic and not some modern retelling of 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 wonder if anyone will ever confront Virgil’s Aeneid. This is epic in itself, as it is a story of Roman origin driven by the work of Homer, which takes the attitude of the Trojans fleeing Troy while the Greeks sack the city. Later, they settle down. on the Italian peninsula with power struggles very similar to those in Game of Thrones with the factions that already live there.
This will be a new bankruptcy for Nolan; If you can pull it off, there’s probably not much you can’t do.
That is unexpected. I am very interested.
Something tells me there will be no outrage over no Greek actors…
It will be adapted for an audience 😉
Well, maybe in spite of everything we will have a worthy successor to Kirk Douglas’ film after a hundred years.
I have a beautiful view from my apartment in Kansas, the best for this movie.
I still can’t think about the PBS Wishbone screen and tells The Odyssey.
Completely unexpected, but exciting. Although I wish there was another important film for Iliad.
What does this have to do with armored helicopters?
Who else thinks Sean Bean is Odysseus like in Troy?
Better to make plasticine or it’s useless.