Matt Damon is Ulysses: First photo of the Odyssey according to Christopher Nolan
Sing me, Muse, Christopher Nolan’s next film, with Damon as King of Ithaca.
And here is already the first official photo of Odyssey ! The shooting of the next film of Christopher Nolanwhich will be as its name suggests a new adaptation of the story awarded to Homer, has just started. It is Matt Damon Who embodies the king of Ithaca, “the man with a thousand tricks” lost for twenty years on the seas of Greece. To all Lord …
It will therefore be a real peplum, with Sandals and Toges, a first for Christopher Nolan whose historical films went back to the worst in the 1890s (The prestige) then to 1940 (Dunkirk). Sacred jump in time. And, by the way, it will be the most expensive film of the director, with an estimated budget at 250 million dollars. And, inevitably, he already promises us epic scenes in Imax and with the vital minimum of digital effects ::
Christopher Nolan wants to shoot the scene of the cyclops of his Odyssey without CGI
The Odyssey brings together Nolan and Damon, after Interstellar (where he was already failed in an inaccessible elsewhere) and Oppenheimerand a huge casting: Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Elliot Page, Himesh Patel, Samantha Morton, Mia Goth, to quote The best known. Now that we know that Damon will play Ulysses, we take the bets on whom will play who: Pénélope, Télémaque, Circé and the others.
The Odyssey will be released at Universal, as OppenheimerJuly 15, 2026 in France. Do not stick too much: it will come faster than the return of Ulysses home.
