Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was one of the sensations of the 2023 summer movie season, though half of that might have been due to the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon. Oppenheimer was still a good movie in its own right, a biography of the atomic bomb’s inventor told in a non-linear fashion. Since then, everyone has been wondering what Nolan’s follow-up will be. We now know he’s betting BIG.
You can’t get bigger than The Odyssey, one of the oldest epics known to man, the story of an iron-willed king and his quest to reach his homeworld after the Trojan War. Unfortunately he has to do it on a boat and Poseidon bears a grudge against him. From cyclopses to sirens to sorceresses, Odysseus is cursed to face one peril after another, and when he finally makes it back, it isn’t over — he’s gotta fight a ton of suitors who are after his wife. A movie just came out, The Return, dedicated to JUST that last conflict.
Casting has not officially been settled, but the trades are reporting that Nolan wants to work with Matt Damon again, and that the cast may also include Charlize Theron, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, and Robert Pattinson. Which one of these is Circe? I would go with Hathaway.
The deal is through Universal Pictures, who are targeting a July 17, 2026 release. More on Nolan’s Odyssey as we hear about it.
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