Christopher Nolan’s Next Is “The Odyssey”

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The speculation is at an end – Universal Pictures has announced that Christopher Nolan’s next film is an adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey”.

In a posting on X, Nolan’s take is described as a “mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film technology.”

The film brings Homer’s iconic saga of Odysseus and his many year journey home after the Trojan War to IMAX film screens for the first time.

Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o and Robert Pattinson star in the film which will shoot early next year and opens in cinemas everywhere on July 17th 2026.

The story has been adapted for the screen several times – as the Kirk Douglas-led film “Ulysses ” in 1954, as the early 1980s sci-fi animated series “Ulysses 31,” as a memorable TV mini-series in 1997 starring Armand Assante, and loosely turned into the Coen brothers’ “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”.

The news comes as the Ralph Fiennes-led “The Return,” which adapts the last part of the story, is currently in cinemas.