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It's official: Christopher Nolan goes antique. His love for Gladiator 2his favorite film of 2024, would it have given him ideas? In any case, his next film is nothing less than a new cinema version of The Odyssey. It was his producing studio, Universal, which revealed yesterday through a tweet what Nolan was up to:
“Christopher Nolan's next film, 'The Odyssey,' is an epic, legendary action film that will be shot across the globe using brand-new IMAX technology. The film will be brought to the screen the seminal saga of Homer hits IMAX screens for the premiere, and will be released in theaters everywhere on July 17, 2026.”
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.
— Universal Pictures (@UniversalPics) December 23, 2024
If Nolan has already dabbled with historical films, he confined himself to the world of the Second World War with Dunkirk Then Oppenheimer. With his Odysseyhe radically changed his style by tackling the peplum, leaving the world of spies, soldiers of fortune and robbers in three-piece suits for mythological Greece. We can also begin to theorize about the links between 2001, A Space Odyssey (one of Nolan's seminal films) and this Odyssey-there.
As always, Nolan is assembling an impressive cast: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron… Now we can start to imagine them in the shoes of the hero of The Odyssey. Who will play Ulysses? Penelope? Tom Holland as Telemachus? Matt Damon as a Cyclops? The journey has only just begun.
To wait, we can find Ralph Fiennes in Ulysses and Juliette Binoche in Pénélope in The Returnn, which should be released in theaters in 2025: