Christopher Nolan’s next film announced as ‘mythic action epic’ The Odyssey | Movies

Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to Oppenheimer can be an adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, it has been revealed.

Hollywood studio Common, which is backing the mission, posted on social media on Monday that: “Christopher Nolan’s subsequent movie The Odyssey is a mythic motion epic shot internationally” and that “Homer’s foundational saga” can be shot “utilizing model new Imax movie know-how”. The studio stated it plans to launch the movie in July 2026.

Information that Nolan was engaged on a brand new mission – following the seven-Oscars-winning Oppenheimer – first emerged in October, when Spider-Man’s Tom Holland was revealed to be in talks to star alongside Matt Damon. Nolan has chosen to stay with Oppenheimer producers Common, after ending his earlier relationship with the studio Warner Bros when it briefly deserted unique theatrical distribution throughout the Covid pandemic.

It later emerged that Anne Hathaway and Zendaya have additionally joined the forged. Whereas making the announcement, Hathaway expressed her gratitude to Nolan for giving her a job in his sci-fi epic Interstellar, after “how poisonous my id had change into on-line … [he did] not care about that and gave me one of the crucial lovely roles I’ve had in probably the greatest movies that I’ve been part of.”

Nolan has lengthy been enthusiastic in regards to the giant-scale Imax format, and beforehand employed it in movies together with The Darkish Knight Rises, Interstellar and Dunkirk.

The Odyssey, composed within the eighth or seventh century BC and attributed to Homer, has been solely not often tailored for the display, with maybe essentially the most distinguished instance being the 1954 Italian movie Ulysses starring Kirk Douglas and Silvana Mangano. Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche play the leads in The Return, tailored from The Odyssey’s last part, which was launched within the US in December. The 1995 movie Ulysses’ Gaze, directed by Greek auteur Theo Angelopoulos and starring Harvey Keitel, makes use of motifs from Homer in its research of a film-maker returning to his Greek homeland, whereas O Brother, The place Artwork Thou?, the Coen brothers’ 2000 comedy, additionally borrows from the epic poem.