A few years in the past, filmmaker Christopher Nolan misplaced the possibility to adapt Homer’s “The Iliad” as “Troy.” Whereas he acquired the possibility to inform one other nice heroic chronicle (that of Batman), he is now headed again to historical Greece for subsequent yr’s “The Odyssey.” After a cryptic teaser screened earlier than “Jurassic World: Rebirth” again in July, Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has now launched its first full trailer.
Like Nolan’s final film, “Oppenheimer,” “The Odyssey” boasts an infinite forged of recognizable actors. Main the pack is Matt Damon (who labored with Nolan on “Interstellar” and “Oppenheimer”) as Odysseus, the traditional Greek king who, after the Trojan Warfare, is delayed returning house to Ithaca and his beloved Penelope (Anne Hathaway). Tom Holland additionally stars as Odysseus and Penelope’s son, Telemachus.
“The Odyssey” is ready to launch in theaters on July 17, 2026.
Christopher Nolan takes on one among historical past’s biggest epic tales
Odysseus was famously the neatest and craftiest of the traditional Greek heroes. Damon, identified for enjoying quick-witted motion heroes like Jason Bourne, ought to match the half like a glove. The massive query hanging over “The Odyssey” is how far Nolan, a filmmaker obsessive about realism, sensible results, and bodily movie inventory, will push the fantastical. Nevertheless, the forged does embody mythological characters, like Zendaya as Athena (Greek goddess of knowledge) and Charlize Theron because the witch Circe.
Why did Nolan, second solely to James Cameron as Hollywood’s premier clean test filmmaker, select to make “The Odyssey” now? He thought a classical epic movie of this kind hadn’t been made with fashionable filmmaking expertise, and he wished to mount that experiment himself. He in contrast “The Odyssey” to the works of Ray Harryhausen, the particular results wizard who crammed journey movies like 1981’s “Conflict of the Titans” with stop-motion monsters.
If any director could make an thrilling new tackle “The Odyssey,” one of many oldest tales we’ve, it is Christopher Nolan.
