Make records with his Oppenheimer (the film in Italy alone grossed 28.6 million euros and won seven Oscars last March 3 out of the 12 for which it was nominated) Christopher Nolan will now film an epic based on Homer's Odyssey. This was announced on official social networks by Universal Pictures, the production company with which the Oscar-winning director is working (among the seven statuettes also that for best film), which also adds that the film which brings the saga of Homer “on Imax screens will be released in theaters worldwide on July 17, 2026”.
'Oppenheimer', the Oscar winner: a flawless classic but without the spark
Anthony Monda
11 March 2024
According to what he writes Variety also that the production, led by Nolan himself with his wife Emma Thomas, should begin as early as the first half of 2025. The cast currently includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson e Charlize Theron.
Holland last week said a The Dish that I signed but “to be perfectly honest, I don't really know what it's about”
The Odyssey has already been the protagonist of various films and TV series starting from the 1911 silent film directed by Giuseppe De Liguoro, Francesco Bertolini and Adolfo Padovan and made on the occasion of the Turin International Exhibition and the fiftieth anniversary of the Unification of Italy . It arrived in 1954 Ulysses with Kirk Douglas directed by Mario Camerini. In Ulysses against Hercules of 1962 by Mario Caiano with Georges Marchal there was also Raffaella Carrà as Adraste. In 1989 there had been Nostos – The return written and directed by Franco Piavoli. It is from 2000 Brother, where are you? (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) directed by the Coen brothers and loosely based on The Odyssey with George Clooney and John Turturro. And it will arrive in theaters at the end of January Ithaca – The return Of Uberto Pasoliniwhich tells of Odyssey's (Ralph Fiennes) return to his wife Penelope (Juliette Binoche).
