It’s tough to overstate the incredible impact Homer’s legendary has actually had on worldwide culture. Nolan himself remembered seeing the Odyssey carried out as a school play when he was simply 5 or 6 years of ages. “I keep in mind the Sirens and him being strapped to the mast and things like that,” he just recently informed Empire. “I believe it’s in everyone, truly. And when you begin to break down the text and adjust it, you discover that all of these other movies– and all the movies I’ve dealt with– you understand, they’re all from the OdysseyIt’s fundamental.”

In addition to Damon, the cast consists of Anne Hathaway as Penelope; Tom Holland as Odysseus’ kid, Telemachus; Robert Pattinson as Antinous, among Penelope’s lots of suitors; Jon Bernthal as the Spartan king, Menelaus; Benny Safdie as the Achaean leader throughout the Trojan War, Agamemnon; John Leguizamo as Odysseus’ devoted servant, Eumaeus; Himesh Patel as his second-in-command, Eurylochus; Will Yun Lee and Jimmy Gonzales as team members; and Mia Goth as Penelope’s house maid Melantho. We likewise have Zendaya as Athena, Charlize Theron as Circe, and Lupita Nyong’o in an as-yet-undisclosed function.

The Odyssey hits theaters on July 17, 2026.