On the President’s Day, Cinephiles got his first look at what could only be the most long -awaited movie 2026: Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey. “Universal got to its Official social media accounts To release the first photo from filmas showing Matt Damon In a suit like Odysseus, the mythical Greek hero who spends a decade to try to return home after fighting in the Trojan war.
Damon was one of First role members were announced For Nolan’s movie and was soon united by Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Benny Safdie, Charlize Theron, Mia Goth, Jon Bernthal, John Leguamo and Elliot Page. None of Casting – Processing has been accompanied by news about who plays what character from Homer’s epic poem – although it did not prevent the fans from speculating that Holland could play Odysseus’ son Telemachus – so Universal’s post marks the first official confirmation that Damon is playing the titular role.
Was announced in December 2024Nolan’s tag “The Odyssey” will be his 13th feature film. The Box Office success and the Oscar dominance of “Oppenheimer” ensured that Nolan’s follow-up would be among the most sought after projects in Hollywood for both actors and studios. Despite rumors of outreach from his former home Warner Bros., where he had worked for decades before “Oppenheimer”, Nolan chose to return to Universal for “The Odyssey.”
“Christopher Nolan‘S Next Film’ The Odyssey ‘is a mythical action -epic shot all over the world with the help of brand new IMAX film technology, ”wrote the studio in a post about X that announced the movie in December. “The film gives Homer’s basic fairy tale to the IMAX movie screens for the first time and opens in theaters everywhere on July 17, 2026.”
Nolan is expected surprisingly to shoot the film in IMAX format, with production that took place in Sicily in Sicily, England and Morocco in 2026. Many of the Sicilian islands are believed to be the places that Homer referred to in its original text, as global boundaries have been considerably surrounded over the past three thousand years. It seems that Nolan devotes the extensive Hollywood resources at its disposal to capture the basic text with an eye for both its epic scale and period detail.
A universal release, “The Odyssey” opens in theaters on July 17, 2026.
