Christopher Nolan’s next film will be an adaptation of Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’

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Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan shall be taking audiences to legendary Greece along with his newest undertaking.

Common Footage introduced this week that Nolan shall be directing a cinematic adaptation of “The Odyssey,” an historical poem believed to be written by Homer between 750 and 650 BCE centering on the character Odysseus’ 10-year trek dwelling after the Trojan Struggle.

Nolan’s forthcoming adaptation is described as “a mythic motion epic shot internationally utilizing model new IMAX movie know-how,” in keeping with the studio’s announcement posted to their X web page Monday.

Zendaya, Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson together with Oscar-winners Matt Damon, Lupita Nyong’o, Anne Hathaway and Charlize Theron are reportedly set to star within the movie.

Holland not too long ago spoke about signing onto the undertaking, saying on “The Dish” podcast final week that the movie hasn’t began taking pictures but. He added that Nolan solely “loosely pitched” it to him after they met to debate the undertaking, however that he nonetheless didn’t know all the main points.

The “Spider-Man” actor additionally touched on working along with his girlfriend Zendaya, joking that “studios like it” after they’re on the identical undertaking as a result of they solely need to pay for “one lodge room.”

Pattinson, Damon and Hathaway have all beforehand appeared in Nolan’s movies, together with “Tenet,” “Interstellar” and “Oppenheimer.”

Nolan can be behind epic movies together with “Inception,” “The Darkish Knight,” “Dunkirk” and his most up-to-date movie “Oppenheimer,” which scored large finally 12 months’s Oscars when it took dwelling the trophy for greatest image. Nolan received that award as a producer, and likewise took dwelling the Academy Award for greatest director.

In accordance with Common’s social media announcement this week, “The Odyssey” will carry Homer’s “foundational saga to IMAX movie screens for the primary time” and can open in theaters on July 17, 2026.