20 February 2025
Pretty soon everyone from Hollywood will be in this film. Deadline reported yesterday that Michael Vlamis and Iddo Goldberg have joined Chris Nolan’s film. Typically we don’t know who they are playing and we may not for some time. Am wondering who Rob will be, I think I did see someone on social media suggest Rob could be Poseidon. Time will tell.
And I noticed that the pic of Matt Damon below has been removed, which is strange as I thought the X account was the official movie account meaning shouldn’t they be the copyright holder. In any event, if you want to see the pic head over to Variety since I don’t want to get a breach notice!
18 February 2025
Well this was unexpected this morning. What appears to be the official movie X account for The Odyssey shared this photo of Matt Damon as Odysseus
Matt Damon is Odysseus. A film by Christopher Nolan, #TheOdysseyMovie is in theaters July 17, 2026. pic.twitter.com/7a5YbfqVfG
— odysseymovie (@odysseymovie) February 17, 2025
17 February 2025
Whilst we were busy being distracted by Rob at the Mickey17 world and Berlinale premieres, Christopher Nolan was adding more co-stars to his already star-studded film. As at today, the following announcements of additional actors were made:
Variety (13 Feb 2025): Rafi Gavron and Shiloh Fernandez have joined the ensemble of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” sources close to the actors confirm.
Deadline (14 Feb 2025): Valentine’s Day 2025 brought about more casting news for the film. First Deadline broke the news of Corey Hawkins; (The Piano Lesson, In the Heights) casting in the film. Then came the news of Nick Tarabay (Spartacus, The Expanse), Jimmy Gonzales (Busboys, Mayans M.C.) and Maurice Compte (Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, Mayans M.C.), also exclusively reported by Deadline.
THR (14 Feb 2025): Pearl star Mia Goth has joined the high-sailing cast of Christopher Nolan’s latest movie project, The Odyssey.
In addition, IMDbPro updated adding Hoyte Van Hoytema (Cinematographer) is attached to the film.
13 February 2025
Filming updates below:
The filming will begin in Messinia, Greece, on March 10, 2025, and continue until March 25, 2025. The production will involve around 350 people, including crew and actors, and a fleet of 100–150 vehicles. Casting for extras took place in Kalamata, Methoni, and Pylos on February… https://t.co/cxm6Fxbtw7
— Christopher Nolan Art & Updates (@NolanAnalyst) February 11, 2025
11 February 2025
This cast keeps on expanding. Deadline reporting:
“Christopher Nolan‘s next big epic at Universal, The Odyssey, has added Himesh Patel, Elliot Page, Bill Irwin and Samantha Morton.
For Patel, Page and Irwin, it’s a reteam with the 2x Oscar-winning filmmaker. Patel starred in Nolan’s 2020 Tenet, Page in 2010’s Inception, and Irwin in 2014’s Interstellar. For 2x Oscar nominee Morton, it’s her first time working with Nolan.”
31 January 2025
Another day, another new castmate. According to Variety (via @InSneider):
John Leguizamo is the latest star to join the cast of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.” He will appear alongside previously announced cast members Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Benny Safdie and Jon Bernthal.
This is one amazing looking cast. So looking forward to finding out what Rob’s role will be.
30 January 2025
The Nikas brothers look like they are reuniting (assuming they have scenes together). THR reported this morning that Benny Safdie has joined the cast of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”:
Actor-director Benny Safdie is reuniting with Christopher Nolan for the filmmaker’s latest movie, The Odyssey.
Safdie, who appeared as physicist Edward Teller in Nolan’s Oscar-winning Oppenheimer, joins an all-star Universal Pictures production that includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron and Jon Bernthal.
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Character descriptions and roles are being kept hidden in the cave of Polyphemus. Universal had no comment on the casting.
28 January 2025
According to Variety:
Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey” will be partly filmed in Sicily which, according to scholars, was a location for Odysseus’ wanderings in the epic composed by Homer around 8th century BCE.
Shooting of the Sicilian portion of Nolan’s “Odyssey” is expected to start in roughly two months on the island of Favignana, known as “goat island,” which is believed to be the place where Homer envisioned Odysseus landed with his motley crew to barbecue goats and stock up on food. The idyllic isle is part of the Egadi archipelago off of Sicily’s north-west coast.
Nolan – who is shooting “The Odyssey” using brand new Imax film technology – is also likely to film some of the big-budget epic in Sicily’s Eolian islands, according to several sources. But the bulk of the mythical action movie’s Sicily shoot will be in Favignana. The film’s other announced locations are the U.K. and Morocco.
24 January 2025
According to Christopher Nolan Updates and Production Weekly, The Odyssey will film between February to August 2025. Its possible that if The Batman is to film in the summer that Rob will have finished shooting his scenes since he’s not the lead, that task goes to Tom Holland.
Also mentioned this week, was the addition of Jon Bernthal to the cast.
According to @prodweek, filming for ‘THE ODYSSEY’ will take place from February to August.
— Christopher Nolan Art & Updates (@NolanAnalyst) January 23, 2025
Robert Downey Jr. is mentioned for a role. pic.twitter.com/kjJE0sUpeI
5 January 2025
Production Weekly is reporting that The Odyssey will be filming from January to April 2025 in UK, Morocco and Italy. It also has a mention that Robert Downey Jr is involved, although confirmation as to RDJ joining the cast is yet to be confirmed.
30 December 2024
Few more updates on this film today via World of Reel:
“I’m a little late to this, but it turns out that Austin Butler was in line to play Robert Pattinson’s role in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ before Pattinson’s schedule cleared up due to ‘Batman 2’ filming being delayed. Also, I’m hearing that a few more actors will be announced as being part of the ‘Odyssey’ cast, most likely next week.”
and World of Reel also confirms who will be the composer and cinematographer for the film:
“An interesting development when it comes to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.” It looks as though Ludwig Göransson will be composing the score of the film, and not Nolan regular Hans Zimmer. Knowing Göransson’s fervent commitment to projects, don’t be surprised if he travels to ancient Greece just to find exotic Greek instruments for the score.
In 2019, Göransson was announced as composer for “Tenet.” This surprised many. It turned out that Göransson was chosen after Nolan’s frequent collaborator and first choice, Zimmer, turned down the offer in favor of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune.” Göransson was brought back for Nolan’s following film, “Oppenheimer,” which ended up winning him the Oscar for best original score.
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The same exact situation happened with DP Hoyte van Hoytema who has become Nolan’s recurrent cinematographer ever since 2014’s “Interstellar.”
click on link above to read full article.
26 December 2024
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Christopher Nolan’s new film will be an adaptation of Homer’s poem “The Odyssey”:
“Christopher Nolan’s next film ‘The Odyssey’ is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film technology,” said the studio. “The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX film screens for the first time and opens in theaters everywhere on July 17, 2026.”
21 November 2024
A. Confirmed.
— Daniel Richtman (@DanielRPK) November 21, 2024
B. They credit World of Reel even tho the source is me. Even the World of Reel article state the source is me… https://t.co/MoS2NJaMG8 pic.twitter.com/oNyubYmFsW
Looks like Rob is going to be extremely busy next year what with promoting Mickey17 and possibly Die My Love and The Drama (although release dates are yet to be confirmed) let’s not forget filming Batman 2, and if that’s not enough, Daniel Richtman broke the news that Rob is joining the cast of Christopher Nolans “under wraps” new film which is due to be released on 17 July 2026. According to Daniel via World of Reel:
“Robert Pattinson is being eyed for a role in Christopher Nolan’s next film. So far, the cast includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o and Zendaya. The film starts production this January and will be shooting in numerous countries across Europe.
No word yet on plot details, let alone a title, for Nolan’s next film. It’s being kept top secret and we probably won’t really know anything until next year. I gather a teaser will be released in Summer 2025, and that’s when we’ll probably learn what the movie is called and what subject it might tackle.
Various theories have been posited online about the project. Gizmodo claimed that it was a ‘20s-set Vampire movie. Variety reported that it might be a spy movie. THR heard rumblings about a “father-son” story (which they later recanted). Grace Randolph claimed that it was maybe a “horror film.” Meanwhile, a Reddit rumor suggested that it could be an action movie influenced by 1983’s “Blue Thunder.”
Matt Belloni had previously reported that Nolan started writing the screenplay for this next film back in March, just a few days after “Oppenheimer” triumphed at the Oscars. Universal Pictures will distribute. The film is set for release on July 17, 2026.
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According to THR:
“Sources say that Damon, Holland, Hathaway and now Pattinson make up the core leads of the feature. Nyong’o and Zendaya are said to have supporting roles.
The filmmaker is producing alongside his partner and wife Emma Thomas for their Syncopy banner. A shoot in the first half of 2025 is being planned.
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The actor is due to return to Batman for Matt Reeves’ sequel and there was hope that it could shoot sometime next year. Those hopes remain in place but nothing is close to being planned.”
Deadline is also reporting on the casting.
Posted on November 26, 2024
YES PLEASE!!!