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Christopher Nolan's next movie with incredible cast has finally been unveiled

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Published 11:58 24 Dec 2024 GMT

Christopher Nolan's next movie with incredible cast has finally been unveiled

The plot of his next movie has been announced

Michael Slavin

Michael Slavin

The plot details for the next movie from Christopher Nolan’s next movie have been revealed, and fans are shocked.

If it was even possible, interest in the films of Nolan has taken yet another leap upwards following the release of Oppenheimer last year.

The film was Nolan’s most successful in several ways, making the most money of any of his non-Batman films, and winning him his first ever Best Director and Best Picture award at the Oscars.

As such, interest in his next film has gone stratospheric, which has only been accentuated by the incredible cast.

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Nolan won his first two Oscars for Oppenheimer (Jeff Kravitz via Getty Images)
Nolan won his first two Oscars for Oppenheimer (Jeff Kravitz via Getty Images)

The cast of his next film is absolutely stacked. Full of actors familiar to Nolan and new ones who fans have been waiting for him to work with.

The cast is made up of Matt Damon, Lupita Nyong’o, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, and Robert Pattinson.

Hathaway and Damon are both multi-time Nolan veterans, while Pattinson appeared in one of his films, Tenet.

Theron and the A-list couple of Zendaya and Holland are all first time Nolan actors.

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The film is set to be a massive departure from what fans have come to expect of Nolan, originally thought to be a remake of the 1983 film, Blue Thunder, it was revealed this week that the upcoming movie is set to be an adaptation of Homer’s (not that one) The Odyssey.

The epic poem is considered a foundational piece of literature, one of the most influential pieces of writing in history, and one of the oldest pieces of writing still studied to this day.

Nolan will reunite with Anne Hathaway for the film (Matthew Imaging via Getty Images)
Nolan will reunite with Anne Hathaway for the film (Matthew Imaging via Getty Images)

Universal Pictures tweeted out: “Christopher Nolan’s next film The Odyssey is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film technology.

“The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX film screens for the first time and opens in theatres everywhere on July 17, 2026.”

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Where Nolan’s previous films have been predominantly been Sci-Fi, such as Tenet and Interstellar, or grounded movies such as Oppenheimer or Dunkirk, this will be his first entry with a more fantasy, swords and sandals feel to it.

The story of The Odyssey (2,800 year old spoilers incoming) follows the story of Odysseus travelling home following the conclusion of the Trojan war.

In 2018 the BBC polled various different literature experts on the topic of ‘the 100 stories that shaped the world’, with The Odyssey topping the list, beating out classics such as Frankenstein, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Hamlet.



Fans were equal parts ecstatic and shocked to hear the news, flocking to social media to share their thoughts.

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One fan tweeted: “Christopher Nolan doing fantasy, this is all I could ever ask for”.

Another said: “nolan really is the only director left where every movie is an Event”.

A third tweeted: “Nolan spending the last decade of his career making films about the sin of abandoning your family to pursue your Own Story doing an adaption of the Odyssey feels so thematically resonant that I just started levitating”.

Another fan said: “Nolan better make The Odyssey 4 hours+ or some sh*t now he's basically getting handed blank checks.?

The Odyssey will release in 2026.

Featured Image Credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Angela Weiss/Getty

Topics: Christopher Nolan, Matt Damon, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Tom Holland, TV and Film, Film, Entertainment

Michael Slavin
Michael Slavin

Michael Slavin is LADbible's dedicated specialist Film and TV writer. Following his completion of a Masters in International Journalism at Salford University, he began working for the Warrington Guardian as a reporter. Throughout this he did freelance work about Entertainment for publications such as DiscussingFilm, where he was the Film and TV editor. Now, he is LAD's go to voice on all things Netflix, True Crime, and UK TV, as well as interviewing huge global stars such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Daisy Ridley, and Ben Stiller.

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