Christopher Nolan is taking a crack at adapting Homer’s Greek poem, The Odyssey, into an IMAX film match for the massive display screen. With a star-studded solid behind Matt Damon because the lead, the 2026 motion flick is anticipated to be an immersive, dramatic and thrilling trip for viewers.
As seen within the first trailer for the movie, Damon’s Odysseus is confronted with a protracted and tough journey throughout the ocean following the Trojan Warfare.
Beneath, Hollywood Life has compiled all the data we all know to this point about The Odyssey!
What Is The Odyssey About?
Homer’s The Odyssey follows the legendary Greek king of Ithaca, Odysseus, as he embarks on a protracted and harmful journey again residence after the Trojan Warfare. The story chronicles his encounters with different legendary entities, together with sirens, a witch-goddess and extra, whereas Odysseus tries to reunite along with his spouse, Penelope.
When Does Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Come Out?
Nolan’s The Odyssey will probably be launched in theaters on July 17, 2026. It’s at present the costliest film of the filmmaker’s profession, because it was shot on IMAX 70mm cameras.
The Oppenheimer director teased that his upcoming cinematic expertise “really incorporates all tales” throughout a November 2025 interview with Empire.
“As a filmmaker, you’re in search of gaps in cinematic tradition, issues that haven’t been finished earlier than,” Nolan defined. “And what I noticed is that each one of this nice mythological cinematic work that I had grown up with — Ray Harryhausen films and different issues — I’d by no means seen that finished with the form of weight and credibility that an A-budget and an enormous Hollywood, IMAX manufacturing might do.”
Who Is in The Odyssey Forged?
As beforehand acknowledged, Damon is main the solid within the function of Odysseus, the traditional Greek legendary determine. He’s flanked by co-stars Anne Hathaway as Odysseus’ spouse, Penelope, Tom Holland as Telemachus, Odysseus’s son, Robert Pattinson as Antinous, Zendaya because the goddess Athena and Charlize Theron because the goddess-witch Circe.
The remainder of the intensive solid options Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Himesh Patel, Mia Goth, Will Yun Lee and Invoice Irwin.
In January 2026, it was revealed that rapper Travis Scott was solid within the movie throughout a teaser clip that aired through the AFC Championship soccer sport.
