Director Christopher Nolan (The Prestige, Oppenheimer) filmed The Odyssey from Homer and cast Matt Damon as legendary hero. We already knew that much. Variety and a First picture of the adventure filmthe Damon shows in the magnificent costume, whose metal could use a little polish.
First picture of Matt Damon as Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus:
However, the question remains whether Odysseus will be the central main character in Nolans The Odyssey, or the focus will be on another character (for example Holland’s other main character).
Christopher Nolan’s adventure epic The Odyssey: Perhaps his most ambitious film project
The almost 3000-year-old saga story from ancient Greece sounds more and more ambitious in the hands of Nolan. So he is said to have already rebuilt all of Troy for his adventure film and supposedly intends to realize the huge cyclopic polyphem as a practical effect with animatronic doll.
The rest of the cast is not of bad parents and Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, Elliot Page, Jon Bernthal, Lupita Nyong’o and many more in the extensive cast.
Costs can be made all the fun over $ 250 million.
When does the Odyssey come to the cinema?
The shooting has just started and will take place in Morocco, Great Britain and the Italian island of Favignana this year. The film start is in Germany for that July 16, 2026 planned. So enough time to do a few homework beforehand and your own knowledge of the To refresh the crazy journeys of the Odysseusthat has already inspired a whole series of sandal films.