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The Odyssey (2026)

Summary

After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.

Director Christopher Nolan

Writer Christopher Nolan

Cast

  • Matt Damon as Odysseus
  • Tom Holland as Telemachus
  • Anne Hathaway
  • Zendaya
  • Lupita Nyong'o
  • Robert Pattinson
  • Charlize Theron
  • Benny Safdie
  • Jon Bernthal
  • John Leguizamo
  • Elliot Page
  • Himesh Patel
  • Samantha Morton

Rotten Tomatoes: 96%

Metacritic: 88

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u/PapaCheech 10h ago

That homer guys a pretty good writer I hope he writes another book

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u/WorldsOkayestDad 10h ago

I dunno about a sequel but I could sure as heck use a prequel

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u/TheGooseIsLoose37 8h ago

They'll probably make a sequel years later, written by a different dude. It'll be basically fan fic

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u/SaturnSeptem 6h ago

I see the Aeneid more like a spin-off

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u/sixtus_clegane119 8h ago

Taking place in Ireland over the course of a single day

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u/Limits_of_knowledge 2h ago

The AU fanfic that picks up a huge fan following.

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u/givemeabreak432 8h ago

Fun fact: there's actually like 8 books in the series, but only Illiad and Odyssey survived

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u/Khetoo 2h ago

This is like when you learn that of all the Norse mythologies writings the sum total of stories we have that survivedis like comparing losing the entirety of all of Marvel's total print runs with the only surviving story a small comic strip printed on the back of a cereal box

The tonnage of lost stories and myths we have sucks and the stories that survived through history get cycled and reinterpreted through the cultures that hear about them and subsume them for their own people

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u/Danmasterflex 9h ago

I would like a directors cut if at all possible.

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u/gabezermeno 9h ago

He's talking about the Illiad

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u/Jusscurio 9h ago

And they were talking about the directors cut of the movie Troy

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u/Euklidis 8h ago

Then you need a movie on the Telegony

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u/Ok-Range-3306 9h ago

do we still put brad pitt in it?

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u/make_love_to_potato 9h ago

Wolfgang Peterson already made that.

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u/Microwave1213 9h ago

It was originally supposed to be Christopher Nolan funnily enough. Then Wolfgang Peterson took over and WB gave Nolan Batman as consolation

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u/notbad4human 7h ago

Close. Nolan chose Batman and then they brought in Wolfgang.

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u/Microwave1213 6h ago

No, that’s incorrect. Per Nolan himself the studio took the movie back to give to Peterson, and then gave Nolan Batman Begins afterwards as consolation

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u/make_love_to_potato 8h ago

Yeah I read about that.

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u/airhorn-airhorn 6h ago

Apparently there were many stories, but these where the two written down.

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u/priyarainelle 1h ago

Let’s hope Nolan will direct that one too!

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u/haillordprawn 10h ago

I'm grateful they kept Sinon's classic line "add some stuff"

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u/GoldandBlue 6h ago

That got a lil laugh out of me. Really dug Eliot Page in this.

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u/thk_ 6h ago

Homer's Sinon? Sure sounds like a character

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u/Propaslander 9h ago

Probably more likely to release another than GRRM

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u/cosmotheassman 9h ago

My thought leaving the theater was along the lines of "Yeah, that's why we still visit this story ~3000 years later."

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u/AquaAtia 7h ago

Me too. First thing I told my GF as we left the theater. What an amazing story that we’re still enthralled by it 2700+ years later. It’s an epic.

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u/Bird_and_Dog 4h ago

As far as "Western" mythological epics go, it's Gilgamesh, Iliad, Odyssey, Exodus and Jesus.

We've got two very powerful Jesus films, two very powerful Exodus films, two films to cover Homer's works...

All that's left is for someone brave enough to tackle the story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu on the big screen. Closest we've ever come is that one Star Trek episode.

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u/Marcothetacooo 10h ago

Worried that he might milk it out if the movie gets too successful!!

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u/spqrnbb 10h ago

Good news, there's at least one more. Bad news, it's a Dan Brown situation where the sequel got adapted first.

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u/427BananaFish 9h ago

In all seriousness there is sequel of sorts, The Telegony, detailing Odysseus’s adventures after The Odyssey; and in total there were eight parts to the full Epic Cycle. The Iliad and Odyssey are the first two and only surviving/preserved sections and the rest we know of from references in other texts.

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u/kaas_is_leven 4h ago

That's really interesting considering we're not even sure Homer existed. And stories were the domain of bards, often verbally delivered. Is it possible the first two were officially canonized and survived due to being written down while the rest remained a verbal tradition that died out?

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u/Expensive-Swan-9553 38m ago

Unfortunately most Latin and Greek written works are only known because we see others who survived referencing them.

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u/ItsGotThatBang 10h ago

I heard this Virgil guy wants to write a spinoff about a Trojan who escaped.

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u/Processing_Info 8h ago

Apparently that same guy is an ancestor of Romulus and Remus, whoever they were.

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u/pacmain1 9h ago

Hope his great great great (x200) grandson got a fat royalty check.

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u/A_man_named_despair 1h ago

The sad thing is he wrote around eight Trojan epics and only two survived, this one and the Illiad. Maybe they were even better. I don’t think we’ll ever know.

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u/SaveTheAles 9h ago

He is brothers with g.r.r. martin so i wouldn't hold my breath

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u/GameOfLife24 6h ago

“This cave is mad sus bro” Homer simpson

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u/NotTaken-username 10h ago

I wonder what Marge thought about it

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u/neo_sporin 10h ago

He is so smart, he is so smart. S M R T i mean S M A R T

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u/eutectic_h8r 8h ago

I bet it would be epic

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u/PoorLifeChoices811 6h ago

odyssey 2: crap i accidentally left my ssn back in troy

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u/BrotherKaramazov 6h ago

Imagine the royalties he is getting from this

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u/MayweatherSr 6h ago

Didn't he wrote 'The Simpson'?

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u/msg8r 2h ago

We’ll probably get Winds of Winter or GTA 6 before that happens.

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u/centaurquestions 1h ago

(Janet from The Good Place voice) Not a guy

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u/Scalar_Ng_Bayan 55m ago

Waiting for the movie "Troy Story" so we get to know more about Troy before the war

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u/pjtheman 3h ago

I have some bad news, he most likely never existed at all.

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u/TimRigginsBeer 6h ago

Walking into the theater tonight, the girl in front of me asked of her date, “so what’s the movie about?” and he just looked at her as dumbfounded as can be. 

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u/SteffanSpondulineux 9h ago

It's all over the place, it's just a serious of random events with no real plot