Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Opens July 17 as Tom Holland Calls Role a New Chapter
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jul 8
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Opens July 17 as Tom Holland Calls Role a New Chapter
3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jul 8
Summary
July 17 brings Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey to cinemas, with Tom Holland playing Telemachus and describing the part as the start of “a new chapter” in his career.
20 years after first imagining elements of the story, Nolan delivers Homer’s epic with Matt Damon as Odysseus, Anne Hathaway as Penelope and Zendaya as Athena.
10 years at war and another 10 trying to return home frame Damon’s Odysseus, while Holland’s Telemachus searches for an absent father and defends his mother from the suitors.
Imax is central to Nolan’s pitch: he says the film is the first feature shot entirely on Imax film, using real ships, real seas and a real Trojan horse.
The release follows Oppenheimer’s roughly $1 billion global run and seven Oscars, setting up The Odyssey as Nolan’s next large-scale test of audiences’ appetite for familiar myth told in a new way.