Christopher Nolan’s next film is The Odyssey, an adaptation of Homer

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Director Christopher Nolan’s next film has been officially revealed The Odysseyan adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek poem about Odysseus’ long journey home after the Trojan War.

Universal Pictures announced the news on social media on Monday, praising the film as “a mythical action epic shot around the world using brand-new IMAX film technology.” The cinema release is scheduled for July 17, 2026.

The Odyssey will mark Nolan’s successor Oppenheimerhis biopic about the father of the atomic bomb, which won seven Oscars (including Best Picture) and grossed nearly $1 billion at the global box office. Like with Oppenheimerit appears Nolan is once again assembling a star-studded cast, with Matt Damon, Zendaya, Tom Holland and Anne Hathaway starring The Odyssey.

Given Nolan’s track record of critical and commercial success, there has been intense speculation about his next move. Already in October, a diversity Report on Warner Bros. unsuccessful attempts to lure Nolan back to the studio after he defected to Universal Oppenheimer listed all the rumored projects that wouldn’t appears as his 13th feature film.

It wouldn’t be a film adaptation of the 1960s British mystery series The prisonerwhich Nolan apparently considered developing in the 2000s. It wouldn’t be a James Bond film, a rumor he categorically denied in 2023. It could be sci-fi, it could be action/espionage a la Blue thunderthe 1983 experimental police helicopter thriller that some suspected Nolan might be interested in redeveloping.

Finally certainty. The Odyssey is one of the oldest recorded stories, dating back to the 7th or 8th century BC. Homer’s epic poem in 24 books follows the king of Ithaca around the Mediterranean as he tries to return to his wife Penelope and son Telemachus after a ten-year campaign in Troy.

Since it is a story that is almost 3,000 years old, The Odyssey has been adapted, remixed and reinterpreted countless times. In terms of film, there were direct retellings, like that of Mario Camerini Ulysseswith Kirk Douglas and Silvana Mangano, and 1997 The Odysseywith Isabella Rossellini, Armand Assante and Bernadette Peters. Then there are the fabulist reinterpretations, like the Coen brothers’ classic O brother, where are you? and Theo Angelopoulos The look of Odysseuswith Harvey Keitel.

Based on the little information we have so far, it sounds like Nolan’s Odyssey may fall into the former camp – but only time will tell what the filmmaker does with this most classic of classics.