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#christopher-nolan

“I was so deeply honored to be entrusted with the role,” Nyong'o told Elle in a recent profile. “I mean, she is iconic. What more can I say?” As Nyong'o is also iconic, the casting makes sense to most people, but not all, as there's been a level of racist backlash against her casting, which led the Oscar-winning actress to offer up the gentle reminder that “this is a mythological story.”

"No, I don't indulge people like you doing crazy s***," Nolan replied. Citing a specific example, he recalled the time Chalamet, now 30, was filming the scene in which his character records messages from home for his father in space. "There was a particular thing where you were hitting a dark tone," the Inception director remembered. "It felt too much for me. I didn't particularly like it."

He's taken on comic books, black holes, and the making of the atom bomb. Now director Christopher Nolan has turned his sights to one of the oldest works of literature in the Western canon. How does the man who brought us The Dark Knight imagine Homer's The Odyssey? The movie's first trailer is finally here to give us some initial clues.

What made these tickets so desirable? The answer is complicated, but a new change means you won't miss out if you're not planning your life a year ahead of time. The tickets sold in July were for 70mm IMAX showings, an ultra-large format used for blockbusters like Oppenheimer and Sinners. It's the largest screen you can possibly see the movie on, and it shows the most of the original image possible while still feeling like real film.

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, starring Tom Holland and Matt Damon, is set to release on July 17, 2026. The film is still in production.

It was more a thing of, 'Nobody's ever made this origin story in this way and treated it as a piece of action filmmaking, a sort of...