The director has made another mortal leap between genres

We already have the first image of the hero of ‘La Odyssey’ of Christopher Nolan. With her, Nolan makes clear her fame as one of the most versatile directors of the moment: her new film is going to be a real peplum, an adventure and drama film set in ancient Greece, a land of fantasy and violence, inspired by a Absolute classic of universal literature.

A cast of bells. Matt Damon will give Ulysses life as part of a cast of stars, and where Tom Holland, Mia Goth, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Benny Safdie, Jon Bernthal and Bernthal and John Leguizamo. The film has a premiere date scheduled for July 17, 2026.

Ulysses come back. It little that Nolan has told of this new version It makes it clear that it is an unheard of new adaptation of the classic of Homer’s epic literature: after the Trojan War, the hero Ulises (or Odysseus) returns home in Ithaca, accompanied by his crew and on a journey full of dangers. Of the charming sirens of sailors to the caves where the Cyclops is hidden, ‘The Odyssey’ is one of the most influential works in the history of human creation.

You know little, but it has chicha. With a script written by Nolan himself, the official data of the film so far are very scarce: part will be shot in Sicily, and the production will begin in spring on the island of Favignana, that is to say environments that historians believe that Homer stepped on by imagining The Odyssey A few weeks ago, Nolan woke up on praise of traditional trucages fans when the rumor was ran that the Cyclops Polyphemus colossal would be shot with a giant puppet, and not creating a figure by CGI.

An ambitious director. What is clear, in any case, is that Nolan’s ambition does not seem Try to give a densest background, and possibly and given your search for “real” scenarios for history, which tries to be as reliable as possible to historical reality. One more evidence that the director of ‘Interstellar‘ and ‘Oppenheimer‘He does not know project that is great.

Multiplicity of genres. Although Nolan’s fame has been based on science fiction (‘Interstellar’, ‘Origin’, ‘Tenet’) and realistic superhero cinema (Batman’s trilogy), his filmography is more varied than that. He has been different forms of historical drama (‘The prestige’, ‘Oppenheimer’) and his career started as creator of Thrillers wiring as ‘Memento’. This jump, however, is one that many directors do not give in their entire career, given the abundant challenges it brings: Nolan’s next With others.

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