Common reveals particulars for Christopher Nolan’s 2026 movie

For months, hypothesis has been rife about Christopher Nolan’s sequel to “Oppenheimer,” the three-hour epic that earned him the Oscars for best film and best director. The solid was steadily shaped: Matt Damon, Zendaya, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Anne Hathaway and Charlize Theron. Could this be a vampire film? For some time, there was a hilarious rumor that Nolan was planning a remake of John Badham’s police helicopter motion film “Blue Thunder” – as a result of apparently that is the way you spend his affect after successful two Oscars and directing a $977 million R-rated masterpiece. .

For many who have been hoping that Matt Damon and Tom Holland would rekindle the crackling chemistry generated by Roy Scheider and Daniel Stern in “Blue Thunder,” I’ve some very dangerous information for you. For everybody else, if you happen to have been hoping for Nolan to push the boundaries by way of scope and expertise, you may get the epic of epics. I simply hope you want poetry.

Homer’s “The Odyssey” has been tailored quite a few instances all through the historical past of cinema. Kirk Douglas performed the epic hero Ulysses in a star-studded 1954 movie by director Mario Camerini, whereas, extra just lately, George Clooney memorably sang the function of the freedom-seeking chief of the Soggy Backside Boys in “O brother, where are you?” by Joel and Ethan Coen. Did you go to high school? Have you ever requested a trainer to dedicate no less than someday to Greek mythology? You already know “The Odyssey”. So this is the deal. According to a tweet from Universal Pictures:

“Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie, ‘The Odyssey,’ is a legendary motion epic shot throughout the globe utilizing the all-new IMAX cinema expertise. The movie presents for the primary time Homer’s seminal saga of the IMAX theater screens and might be launched in theaters worldwide on July 17, 2026.”

For lovers of cinematic thrills, this guarantees to be… nicely, who can say? If Nolan is utilizing the brand new IMAX expertise and the movie is a 12 months and a half away, it is unclear what he is doing. What we will completely anticipate is that Nolan will dedicate each ounce of his cinematic assets to the story of Odysseus endeavor an arduous journey again residence to Ithaca to be together with his spouse Penelope, who’s besieged by her suitor. What I am hoping for is a standard model of the story with mermaids, a maritime journey and an enormous cyclops. There’s at all times the likelihood that Nolan will replace the fabric and set it within the current, which could possibly be cool too! However any longer I need a large Greek epic shot and offered on 70mm movie. Nonetheless Nolan approaches it, it is formally THE cinematic occasion of 2026 and a movie that we’ll be broadly speculating about for a very long time.