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Director Christopher Nolan's subsequent film has formally been revealed as The Odyssey, an adaptation of Homer's historic Greek poem about Odysseus' lengthy journey residence after the Trojan Warfare.

Common Photos introduced the information Monday on social media, hyping the movie as "a mythic motion epic shot the world over utilizing model new IMAX movie expertise." It's set to hit theaters July 17, 2026.

The Odyssey will mark Nolan's follow-up to Oppenheimer, his biopic in regards to the father of the atomic bomb, which gained seven Oscars (together with Finest Image) and grossed practically $1 billion on the worldwide field workplace. As with Oppenheimer, it seems Nolan is as soon as once more assembling a star-studded forged, with Matt Damon, Zendaya, Tom Holland, and Anne Hathaway set to star in The Odyssey.

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Given Nolan's monitor document of a vital and industrial success, hypothesis about his subsequent transfer has been rampant. Again in October, a Variety report detailing Warner Bros.' unsuccessful makes an attempt to lure Nolan again to the studio after he defected to Common for Oppenheimer listed all of the rumored tasks that wouldn't materialize as his thirteenth characteristic.

It wouldn't be a movie adaptation of the Nineteen Sixties British thriller sequence The Prisoner, which Nolan apparently thought of growing within the 2000s. It wouldn't be a James Bond movie, a rumor he categorically denied in 2023. It is perhaps sci-fi, it is perhaps motion/espionage, a la Blue Thunder, the 1983 experimental police helicopter thriller that some have theorized Nolan is perhaps concerned with growing anew.

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So, certainty eventually. The Odyssey is likely one of the oldest recorded tales in existence, relationship again to the seventh or eighth century BCE. Homer's epic poem in 24 books follows the King of Ithaca across the Mediterranean as he makes an attempt to return residence to his spouse, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, after a 10-year marketing campaign in Troy.

Being an almost 3,000-year-old story, The Odyssey has been tailored, remixed, and reinterpreted numerous occasions. By way of movie, there have been straight retellings, like Mario Camerini's Ulysses, starring Kirk Douglas and Silvana Mangano, and 1997's The Odyssey, starring Isabella Rossellini, Armand Assante, and Bernadette Peters. Then there are the fabulist reimaginings, just like the Coen Brothers basic O Brother, The place Artwork Thou? and Theo Angelopoulos's Ulysses' Gaze, starring Harvey Keitel.

Primarily based on what scant data we’ve got to date, it feels like Nolan's Odyssey could fall within the first camp — however solely time will inform what the filmmaker does with this most basic of classics.

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