After months of hypothesis, the topic of Christopher Nolan’s subsequent big-budget blockbuster has been revealed. Nolan is making The Odyssey.
(And sure, it’s that The Odyssey.)
In accordance with a tweet on X from the Common Footage, the film’s distributor, “Christopher Nolan’s subsequent movie The Odyssey is a mythic motion epic shot the world over utilizing model new IMAX movie know-how. The movie brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX movie screens for the primary time.”
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The solid of the movie is alleged to incorporate Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson and Charlize Theron. (Particular roles haven’t been introduced.)
The Odyssey can be Nolan’s thirteenth movie as director. His earlier effort, the historic biopic Oppenheimer, defied the Hollywood odds to turn into not solely an enormous summer season blockbuster that was additionally a considerate drama concerning the lifetime of a scientist, and 2023’s winner of Greatest Image on the Academy Awards. It’s virtually unimaginable to prime that sort of success — though Nolan’s observe document at this level speaks for itself.
The Odyssey is an historic epic poem attribute to the Greek poet Homer, which is one of many oldest works that fashionable audiences nonetheless learn and examine. It follows a person named Odysseus as he struggles to return house to his spouse Penelope after the Trojan Warfare. (The warfare is depicted in Homer’s different epic poem, The Iliad, so don’t fear; if Nolan’s feeling frisky, he’s bought a ready-made prequel to his film already built-in.) His journey takes years, and alongside the way in which he encounters giants, sorcerers, and even a cyclops. (Not the X-Man.)
Nolan’s (Homer’s) The Odyssey, is scheduled to open in theaters on July 17, 2026.
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