It has been revealed that Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to Oppenheimer will be an adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey.

Hollywood studio Universal, which is backing the project, posted on social media on Monday: “Christopher Nolan’s next film The Odyssey is a mythical action epic shot around the world” and that “Homer’s quintessential saga” “with “Filmtechnik” is being shot in a brand new Imax. The studio said it plans to release the film in July 2026.

News that Nolan was working on a new project – following the seven Oscar-winning Oppenheimer – first surfaced in October when it was announced that Spider-Man actor Tom Holland was in talks to star alongside Matt Damon . Nolan has chosen to stay with Oppenheimer producer Universal after ending his previous relationship with studio Warner Bros. when it temporarily gave up exclusive theatrical distribution during the Covid pandemic.

It was later revealed that Anne Hathaway and Zendaya had also joined the cast. In making the announcement, Hathaway thanked Nolan for giving her a role in his sci-fi epic Interstellar after “how toxic my identity had become online… (he) didn’t care and gave me one of the most beautiful roles. “Roles I had in one of the best films I have ever appeared in.”

Nolan has long been passionate about the massive Imax format and has used it in films like The Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar and Dunkirk.

Those in the 8th or 7th century B.C. The Odyssey, composed in the 1st century BC and attributed to Homer, has rarely been adapted for the screen. Perhaps the most prominent example is the 1954 Italian film Ulysses starring Kirk Douglas and Silvana Mangano. Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche star in “The Return,” an adaptation of the final installment of The Odyssey, released in the U.S. in December. The 1995 film Ulysses’ Gaze, directed by Greek author Theo Angelopoulos and starring Harvey Keitel, uses motifs from Homer in its study of a filmmaker returning to his native Greece, while O Brother, Where Art Thou? , the Coen Brothers’ 2000 comedy film, is also based on the epic.