One of many greatest mysteries in Hollywood has been solved. Christopher Nolan’s subsequent film can be The Odyssey, an adaptation of the Greek epic poem by Homer.
In a submit on X, Common Photos, the studio that may distribute Nolan’s subsequent film, wrote, “Christopher Nolan’s subsequent movie, The Odyssey, is a mythic motion epic shot internationally utilizing model new IMAX movie know-how. The movie brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX movie screens for the primary time and opens in theaters all over the place on July 17, 2026.”
The Odyssey dates again to the eighth century BC and follows the saga of the Greek hero Odysseus and his enterprise residence after the Trojan Warfare. The tumultuous journey offers with themes of loyalty, vengeance, and hospitality. The Odyssey is often related to Homer’s different epic poem, The Iliad.
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A number of the notable diversifications embody 1954’s Ulysses, with Kirk Douglas within the titular position; 1997’s The Odyssey, a tv collection starring Armand Assante as Odysseus; and The Coen Brothers’ comical crime musical O Brother, The place Artwork Thou?, which is loosely impressed by Homer’s epic. In 2024, Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche starred in The Return, a dramatization of the final sections of The Odyssey.
Christopher Nolan’s subsequent movie ‘The Odyssey’ is a mythic motion epic shot internationally utilizing model new IMAX movie know-how. The movie brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX movie screens for the primary time and opens in theaters all over the place on July 17, 2026.
— Common Photos (@UniversalPics) December 23, 2024
The Odyssey’s confirmed solid contains Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, and Charlize Theron. Nolan will write and direct The Odyssey. Nolan and his spouse, Emma Thomas, may also produce beneath their Syncopy manufacturing banner. Manufacturing is anticipated to start within the first half of 2025.
The Odyssey marks Nolan’s first film since 2023’s Oppenheimer, the biopic concerning the lifetime of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy). Oppenheimer received seven Oscars, together with Finest Image and Finest Director, and grossed over $976 million.
