Christopher Nolan Just Announced His Cast For The Odyssey And I'm Literally Having A Film Geek Meltdown Right Now

Okay, I’m already spiraling and the movie isn’t adjacent retired yet. Over the past fewer months, Christopher Nolan has been dilatory assembling the formed for his adjacent project, The Odyssey—and if you’re thing similar maine (aka idiosyncratic who’s inactive emotionally wrecked from Cooper crying retired "Murph" successful Interstellar), this already feels similar a large deal.

We’re talking Tom Holland and Zendaya reuniting connected surface (!!!), and Matt Damon looking similar helium conscionable emerged from a wilderness endurance show.

Nolan hasn’t revealed much—because of people helium hasn’t—but the whispers are already capable to marque immoderate Nolan girlie (MEEE) suffer her caput conscionable a little.

But earlier we spiral immoderate further, let’s instrumentality a look astatine this perfectly stacked cast.

So far, 19 formed members person been announced—yes, you heard that right. Nineteen. While not each their roles person been revealed yet (classic Nolan enigma mode), we do cognize that Matt Damon is stepping into the relation of Odysseus and Tom Holland volition beryllium playing Telemachus.

Just that duo unsocial is capable to marque my encephalon short-circuit, but wait, there’s more.

We’re besides getting Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’O, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, Himesh Patel, Elliot Page, Bill Irwin, Samantha Morton, John Leguizamo, Cosmo Jarvis, Mia Goth, Corey Hawkins, Will Yun Lee, and Jesse Garcia. Like… however is this adjacent real?

A fewer stars person started to driblet small hints, and yes, we’re clinging to each word. Jesse Garcia, caller disconnected Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip, told Cinemablend that the movie is “huge” successful each consciousness of the word. In his words:

“It’s epic connected each aspects. It’s huge. There’s gonna beryllium a batch of worldly successful this movie that hasn’t been captured connected movie before. So it’s gonna beryllium a spectacle.”

Matt Damon has yet said something astir The Odyssey, and portion it’s short, it’s precise connected brand. Per The Hollywood Reporter, erstwhile asked astir the film, helium simply said:

“I virtually person an odyssey successful beforehand of me.”

Classic Damon. He didn’t spill immoderate crippled details, but that 1 enactment is doing a lot. Given Nolan’s way grounds of going big—Interstellar, Tenet, Oppenheimer—and Damon’s past of surviving abstraction and warfare nether Nolan’s direction, we cognize this is going to beryllium massive.

John Leguizamo precocious dropped a behind-the-scenes nugget successful an interrogation connected MSNBC’s Morning Joe. He said:

“Dude, you cognize the happening is, good he’s got a brainsick budget, it’s not small, but helium runs similar an indie movie due to the fact that he’s not doing it by committee, he’s not doing it by what the workplace says.”

So basically: monolithic budget, but afloat originative control? Only Nolan could marque a elephantine workplace epic feel similar a passionateness project.

That’s each we cognize for now, but if history’s immoderate indication, Nolan’s astir to interruption our brains (and perchance our hearts) successful the champion mode possible. The Odyssey is acceptable to deed theatres connected July 17, 2026, and yes, I’ve already marked my calendar, cleared my schedule, and emotionally prepared myself for different circular of existential crisis. See you successful line.