Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (July 17th, 2026)

Was hoping for the Prisoner. Rats.
No wonder he said Gladiator 2 was his favorite of 2024. He is now going into the same vein of subject matter.
Teah Tenet was insufferable.

Nolan doesn't write women very well, so I guess expect more Zendaya like this...

I assume Maggie Gyllenhaal will be playing Helen of Troy or Aphrodite or someone?

jye4ever said:

Will Nosferatu suffice?

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Yes it will. Going to see it Saturday.

Wor-Gar said:

Nolan doesn't write women very well, so I guess expect more Zendaya like this...


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Craig Bond is the Chani of the Bond franchise.

He is sulking while drinking a martini.

He is sulking when flirting..

He is sulking when driving an aston martin.

He is sulking when winning a fight.

He is sulking when falling in love.

He is sulking just being Bond.

jye4ever said:

Craig Bond is the Chani of the Bond franchise.

He is sulking while drinking a martini.

He is sulking when flirting..

He is sulking when driving an aston martin.

He is sulking when winning a fight.

He is sulking when falling in love.

He is sulking just being Bond.

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They are the same...

Chani…James Chani

Daniel Chani

spindrift said:

Was hoping for the Prisoner. Rats.
No wonder he said Gladiator 2 was his favorite of 2024. He is now going into the same vein of subject matter.
Teah Tenet was insufferable.

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Nolan has been approached several times about doing Instellar sequels. Consider that a quasi payoff / olive branch from Warner Bros. Also a companion prestige TV series ( about the Lazarus Missions, those are truly potential huge narrative grounds to cover )

Was also approached to allow a Inception prestige TV series, with Joseph Gordon-Leavitt in the lead, but Elliot Page's involvement in the first film killed that concept fast.

Rumors are he has shown some interest in a Moby Dick concept. Also is apparently a fan of Justin Cronin's The Passage ( It was a short run and poorly made TV series, but the original book is actually a pretty great story)

Where I think he's be interesting right now? Stephen King's The Gunslinger series.

Luisenigma1 said:

damn doubt I'll catch it then but don't mind waiting for it to hit streaming to watch.

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Just found The Return is available to rent on Prime for $10.

I've been waiting for someone to make an Odyssey film, but the cast sounds terrible. Why can't Nolan hire new actors, or at least less well-known ones?

newapelles said:

I've been waiting for someone to make an Odyssey film, but the cast sounds terrible. Why can't Nolan hire new actors, or at least less well-known ones?

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Because the known big name actors bring in their own audiences. But I kind of agree here, I think even if Nolan went will all newbies people would still show up because he’s built his own following now arguably beyond any other modern directors and that includes Tarrantino

MeatHookGekko said:

Nolan has been approached several times about doing Instellar sequels. Consider that a quasi payoff / olive branch from Warner Bros. Also a companion prestige TV series ( about the Lazarus Missions, those are truly potential huge narrative grounds to cover )

Was also approached to allow a Inception prestige TV series, with Joseph Gordon-Leavitt in the lead, but Elliot Page's involvement in the first film killed that concept fast.

Rumors are he has shown some interest in a Moby Dick concept. Also is apparently a fan of Justin Cronin's The Passage ( It was a short run and poorly made TV series, but the original book is actually a pretty great story)

Where I think he's be interesting right now? Stephen King's The Gunslinger series.

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Very interesting

I do hope Nolan takes the TV miniseries route someday. He, if anyone, could get a studio to fork out film budgets for a miniseries for sure - I think he could do wonders if not constrained by a 2-3 hr timeline to tell a story.

However, I do know it’s unlikely given Nolan is all about preserving the film format and the tradition of going to watch films on the biggest screen possible.

I had to read a summary of the story to remind myself of what creatures and imagery is in it.

If Nolan sticks to it, with how he handles effects, it could be gargantuan in scale if handled right.

Rotfish said:

Just found The Return is available to rent on Prime for $10.

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Saw it on Friday. It was a good movie.

Anthony Hopkins will be Poseidon.

Will Tom Hardy play Odysseus? Or maybe Scylla with 6 heads (6 roles)?

Cillian Murphy...?

The cast is just strange for this film. Is Matt Daimon Odysseus Tom Holland his son, Anne Hathaway as Penelope his wife. Robert Pattinson is probably a soldier from Odysseus's crew or is playing Achilles. Lupita is probably Calipso who know who Zendya is playing. Let's hope it's a good film.

I won't be surprised if Marion Cotillard and Tom Hardy show up. Zendaya will be upset the whole time. I'm stoked for this.

Seriously, this is not sounding like anything great at this point.

Luisenigma1 said:

The cast is just strange for this film. Is Matt Daimon Odysseus Tom Holland his son, Anne Hathaway as Penelope his wife. Robert Pattinson is probably a soldier from Odysseus's crew or is playing Achilles. Lupita is probably Calipso who know who Zendya is playing. Let's hope it's a good film.

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Nolan focuses on spectacle. He's good at most of it. He's pretty consistent at being good at most of it. However he's not flawless ( weird problems with his audio, doesn't do great directing traditional action scenes, character development is generally paper thin, etc)

The struggle with being known for being the "spectacle" guy is you need to keep topping yourself. If you don't have a gimmick ( TENET was a film built around a gimmick, there's no denying that any longer) then you can only change the venue.

Thus Nolan is moving to "water" He's going to focus on water based spectacles for a while now. Most of The Odyssey, the probable big spectacle sequences will happen on water. IMHO it's less about The Odyssey as much as it's a battle tested story that's a vehicle for a different playground for more spectacle. All star type casting is kind of a workaround to having a thin to mediocre script and minimal character development. In effect, you are asking the audience to accumulate all of Matt Damon's roles in your mind, and let that imprint carry over into a Nolan film as part of the "character development" Just like Denzel Washington in the Equalizer series. He's basically Alonzo from Training Day, Malcolm X and Creasy from Man On Fire rolled into one. It's the same character archetype.

Nolan is good for movie theaters. He creates big tentpole films that get enough people excited enough to drive somewhere, sit through an hour of previews and ads, deal with douche nozzles on their cell phones and bringing their crying babies and pay the money to see his films. I don't think the actors and characters matter as much in Nolan films as long as they are skilled enough to patch over what is usually a poor script.

The practical gap separating Nolan from Michael Bay in the mid to late 90s isn't very big. He's the art house version of Michael Bay. And the slightly underrated The Island was Bay's attempt at being a bit more of an arthouse Nolan version of himself. But, if you had to weigh it out, you can actual understand the dialogue in Bay films, well when there aren't explosions going off and car crashes. So, bizarrely, Bay might actually be a little more fundamentally sound than Nolan.

Where this will get kind of interesting is eventually Nolan will run out of big spectacle themes and gimmicks, and then the only thing left is sex. "Sex" on screen is the last true big "spectacle" that hasn't really been covered right to the edge of the line. I'm not talking about outright porn, I'm talking about sex in a visceral way that generally hasn't been considered game changing on screen. Even Lars Von Trier, with two Nymphomaniac films, couldn't pull it off, and he's a legitimately talented filmmaker in his own right. At that point, I'll sit back and laugh. It will be Nolan, making a film as close to porn as possible, but not porn, where no one can understand the dialogue anyway.

MeatHookGekko said:

Nolan focuses on spectacle. He's good at most of it. He's pretty consistent at being good at most of it. However he's not flawless ( weird problems with his audio, doesn't do great directing traditional action scenes, character development is generally paper thin, etc)

The struggle with being known for being the "spectacle" guy is you need to keep topping yourself. If you don't have a gimmick ( TENET was a film built around a gimmick, there's no denying that any longer) then you can only change the venue.

Thus Nolan is moving to "water" He's going to focus on water based spectacles for a while now. Most of The Odyssey, the probable big spectacle sequences will happen on water. IMHO it's less about The Odyssey as much as it's a battle tested story that's a vehicle for a different playground for more spectacle. All star type casting is kind of a workaround to having a thin to mediocre script and minimal character development. In effect, you are asking the audience to accumulate all of Matt Damon's roles in your mind, and let that imprint carry over into a Nolan film as part of the "character development" Just like Denzel Washington in the Equalizer series. He's basically Alonzo from Training Day, Malcolm X and Creasy from Man On Fire rolled into one. It's the same character archetype.

Nolan is good for movie theaters. He creates big tentpole films that get enough people excited enough to drive somewhere, sit through an hour of previews and ads, deal with douche nozzles on their cell phones and bringing their crying babies and pay the money to see his films. I don't think the actors and characters matter as much in Nolan films as long as they are skilled enough to patch over what is usually a poor script.

The practical gap separating Nolan from Michael Bay in the mid to late 90s isn't very big. He's the art house version of Michael Bay. And the slightly underrated The Island was Bay's attempt at being a bit more of an arthouse Nolan version of himself. But, if you had to weigh it out, you can actual understand the dialogue in Bay films, well when there aren't explosions going off and car crashes. So, bizarrely, Bay might actually be a little more fundamentally sound than Nolan.

Where this will get kind of interesting is eventually Nolan will run out of big spectacle themes and gimmicks, and then the only thing left is sex. "Sex" on screen is the last true big "spectacle" that hasn't really been covered right to the edge of the line. I'm not talking about outright porn, I'm talking about sex in a visceral way that generally hasn't been considered game changing on screen. Even Lars Von Trier, with two Nymphomaniac films, couldn't pull it off, and he's a legitimately talented filmmaker in his own right. At that point, I'll sit back and laugh. It will be Nolan, making a film as close to porn as possible, but not porn, where no one can understand the dialogue anyway.

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That last bit I thought you were mentioning Oppenheimer. Lmao there is sex scene in there so your definitely not wrong. But honestly Nolan had some good films under his name like Mimento, Dark Knight Trilogy that still hold up today. Though honestly I don't know how this one will go given the fact it's a greek myth.