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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!