Christopher Nolan’s next film, ‘The Odyssey,’ is an IMAX epic. Here’s everything we know.

Homer is the attributed writer of two historical Greek poems that have been composed within the eighth or seventh century BC, each of which inform the story of the Trojan Conflict.

“The Iliad” narrates the top of the conflict, whereas “The Odyssey” tells of Odysseus’ 10-year wrestle to return to his island house of Ithaca.

Through the journey, Odysseus and his crew struggle in opposition to a man-eating cyclops, highly effective giants, and sirens. They defeat witches and sea monsters, and anger the gods Zeus and Poseidon. However Odysseus has one god, Athena, on his aspect, attempting to assist him get house.

In the meantime, a band of suitors try to take over Odysseus’ kingdom in Ithaca, supplanting his son Telemachus and convincing Penelope to marry considered one of them.

In a dramatic conclusion, Odysseus disguises himself as a beggar and sneaks again onto the island, the place he observes the actions of the suitors earlier than reclaiming his household and kingdom.

This shall be Nolan’s first movie about Greek mythology, breaking away from his common sci-fi and war films. Nolan additionally wrote the script.

Nolan has a repute for drawing ensemble casts of A-listers, however “The Odyssey” could also be his greatest undertaking but.

Matt Damon will play the movie’s lead hero, Odysseus; Anne Hathaway will play his spouse, Penelope; and Tom Holland will play their son, Telemachus. Different stars with confirmed roles within the solid embody Charlize Theron (Circe), Zendaya (Athena), Robert Pattinson (Antinous), Mia Goth (Melantho), Benny Safdie (Agamemnon), Jon Bernthal (Menelaus), John Leguizamo (Eumaeus), Himesh Patel (Eurylochus), and Jimmy Gonzales (Cepheus).

There are additionally a number of actors within the solid whose components haven’t but been revealed, together with Lupita Nyong’o, Invoice Irwin, Elliot Web page, Jesse Garcia, Will Yun Lee, Samantha Morton, Corey Hawkins, Nick Tarabay, Maurice Compte, Rafi Gavron, Shiloh Fernandez, Michael Vlamis, Iddo Goldberg, and Ryan Hurst.

Damon, Hathaway, Pattinson, Patel, Safdie, Irwin, and Web page have all beforehand labored with Nolan.

Nolan’s “The Odyssey” was partially filmed on the island of Favignana close to Sicily, Variety reported.

Recognized in historical instances as Aegusa, or “goat island,” it is regarded as the inspiration for the fantastical island the place Odysseus lands along with his crew and stops to relaxation, barbecue goats, and drink wine earlier than his run-in with the Cyclops.

Per Selection, the scenes shot in Sicily are mentioned to take up the majority of the legendary motion within the film, whereas areas within the UK and Morocco are additionally getting used.

Manufacturing wrapped in early August 2025.

The film’s first trailer was unveiled in late December 2025. It had 121.4 million views in its first 24 hours on-line, according to Forbes.

That is double the views the “Oppenheimer” trailer did in its first day on-line.

That feat had beforehand been unimaginable as a result of the cameras are extraordinarily noisy.

Nolan, who has at all times liked capturing on IMAX, challenged the corporate to provide you with a quieter digital camera. Damon told the “New Heights” podcast in January what it was like working with the brand new digital camera.

“IMAX cameras are actually loud. It seems like a blender, like a Cuisinart in your face when the digital camera’s near you,” Damon instructed hosts Jason and Travis Kelce. So there’s by no means been these dialogue [scenes in IMAX]. We could not have this dialog with a standard IMAX digital camera since you would not be capable of hear us.”

“They constructed this large factor across the IMAX for these dialogue scenes and a system of mirrors so your eye line can be near the digital camera and you would discuss to the opposite actor,” Damon continued. “The quantity of labor that went into determining how you can do [that], as a result of he needed to do 100% IMAX, and he did it!”

In a TV advert for the film that ran in the course of the NFL playoffs in late January, Travis Scott made an look as a personality telling a bunch the story of the Trojan Conflict.

Scott was not beforehand listed as a part of the solid.

The Grammy-nominated rapper isn’t any stranger to Nolan. For his 2020 film “Tenet,” Scott wrote and carried out its theme tune, “The Plan.”

Pattinson has a quick however essential function in “The Odyssey” taking part in Antinous, who seeks to take the hand of Penelope (Anne Hathaway) whereas Odysseus is away from Ithaca.

In GQ story about the movie, Pattinson revealed the Martin Scorsese character he modeled his efficiency after.

“My character’s a little bit like James Woods in ‘On line casino.’ That was my inspiration for it,” Pattinson mentioned, referring to Woods’ pimp conman Lester Diamond. “I assumed it might be fairly good to see it in Ithaca. And he is like a little bit sleazy. I saved saying at my costume becoming, I used to be like, ‘I actually wish to have leopard underpants.’ I wish to have it simply popping out of my skirt, a little bit sparkly fur.”

In a Time magazine cowl story revealed in Could 2026, Nolan defended the armor Benny Safdie’s Agamemnon wears within the trailer.

The imposing black look was critiqued on-line by viewers who claimed the costume seemed extra like one thing Batman would put on than a commander in the course of the Trojan Conflict. However Nolan instructed the journal the look is genuine to the time.

“There are Mycenaean daggers which can be blackened bronze,” he mentioned. “The speculation is that they most likely may have blackened bronze in these days. You are taking bronze, you add extra gold and silver to it after which use sulfur.”

“With Agamemnon, Ellen [Mirojnick], our costume designer, is attempting to speak how elevated he’s relative to everybody else. You try this via supplies that might be very costly,” he mentioned.