Christopher Nolan to adapt Homer's 'The Odyssey'
Christopher Nolan's next film is an adaptation of The Odyssey, the epic poem composed by Homer around the 8th century BCE.
“Christopher Nolan’s next film The Odyssey is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film technology,” Universal Pictures announced on X on Tuesday, Dec. 24.
“The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX film screens for the first time and opens in theaters everywhere on July 17, 2026.”
Before the announcement, it was reported that Nolan's next film would star Matt Damon, Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, and Charlize Theron, according to Deadline.
The Odyssey is expected to start shooting early next year.
Nolan's last movie was the 2023 biopic Oppenheimer, which received critical and commercial acclaim and won many accolades, including the Academy Awards or Oscars, Golden Globe Awards, and British Academy Film Awards.
The Odyssey follows Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and his ardent journey home after the Trojan War.
There have been several film adaptations of the epic poem: the 1954 Italian film Ulysses, directed by Mario Camerini and starring Kirk Douglas; the 1997 miniseries The Odyssey, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky and starring Armand Assante; and the 2024 film The Return starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche.
Also drawing inspiration from The Odyssey are the novels Ulysses by James Joyce, The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood, and Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, as well as the 1995 movie Ulysses’ Gaze directed by Theo Angelopoulos, the 2000 comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the 2003 film adaptation of Cold Mountain, and the web series Star Trek: Odyssey.