Chris Nolan to shoot part of The Odyssey in precise location where Ulysses landed
Chris Nolan to shoot part of The Odyssey in precise location where Ulysses landed
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The film is set to start shooting in Sicily in roughly two months time. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey will partially be filmed in Sicily, where scholars say Homer based a portion of Ulysses’ journey in his 8th century BCE epic. The Oppenheimer director, 54, will adapt the mythical tale following the king of Ithaca as he journeys home after the Trojan War with an all-star cast including Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson.
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Favignana is understood to be the place where Homer wrote that Ulysses and his crew landed, collected food, and barbecued goats in the tale. It is part of the Egadi archipelago off of Sicily’s north-west coast. The publication reports that Nolan, who is shooting The Odyssey on new IMAX film technology, is likely to film part of the movie on Sicily’s Eolian island. Other locations will include the U.K and Morocco.
The directors mythic action epic will also star Lupita Nyong’o, Anne Hathaway and Charlize Theron alongside Pattison, Holland, Damon and Zendaya. “The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX film screens for the first time and opens in theaters everywhere on July 17, 2026,” Universal Studios announced in a statement.
Earlier this year, Nolan’s longtime producer and wife Emma Thomas teased the forthcoming feature in an interview with Empire. “I would say it’s very exciting,” she said. “This is the moment where the possibilities are sort of limitless, we haven’t started thinking practicalities, or anything.”.
