Elliot Web page, Himesh Patel, Invoice Irwin, and Samantha Morton spherical out the forged of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
As common, Christopher Nolan is stacking his subsequent undertaking with an all-star forged, and the most recent additions embody a couple of Nolan alumni. It’s been introduced that Elliot Web page, Himesh Patel, Invoice Irwin, and Samantha Morton have joined The Odyssey, Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s historic Greek poem.
Web page performed Ariadne in Inception, whereas Patel performed Mahir in Tenet. Irwin can also be a Nolan veteran, however you wouldn’t acknowledge his face. He voiced TARS in Interstellar and bodily managed the robotic on-set. There’s no info on who these new additions will play in The Odyssey, however they be part of a forged that already contains Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, and John Leguizamo.
The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and his journey residence after the ten-year Trojan Warfare. The journey was crammed with peril, together with encounters with the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, and the witch-goddess Circe. At residence, Odysseus is presumed lifeless, and his spouse Penelope and son Telemachus should deal with teams of unruly suitors who every need Penelope’s hand in marriage to manage the dominion.
When Common Photos formally introduced the undertaking final yr, the studio described it as “a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film technology.” Manufacturing is slated to kick off in late February, and a few reviews state that this might be Nolan’s most costly movie up to now. It’s anticipated to value $250 million however might very simply go greater.
Nolan is rarely one to take a budget route, and he shall be filming everywhere in the world for The Odyssey, together with the precise places the place Odysseus was believed to have been. A latest report said that Nolan will shoot a part of the movie on Favignana, Sicily’s “Goat Island,” which is “believed to be the place the place Homer envisioned Odysseus landed along with his motley crew to barbecue goats and fill up on meals. The idyllic isle is a part of the Egadi archipelago off of Sicily’s north-west coast.“
The Odyssey will hit theaters on July 17, 2026.
