Recently it became known that the next film project of Christopher Nolan will be a film adaptation of the poem of the ancient Greek author of Homer Odyssey. And now the Universal studio not only released the name of the actor who will embody the main character, but also showed the first frame with him.

According to Variety, the ancient hero will be embodied by actor Matt Damon. A frame with him in a costume of the legendary king Itaki appeared in the official account of the film on the social network x. Together with the date of the premiere of the picture. She will be released on July 17, 2026.

Mia Goth, Zendei, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyongo, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Benny Sefdy, John Berntal and John Legizamo will also play in the tape.. They will embody different characters of the poem telling about the long journey of Odyssey after the end of the Trojan War home to his native Itaku.

Universal, a long -standing partner of Nolan and the distributor of the film, said in December that Odyssey is a “mythical action movie shot around the world using the new IMAX movie technology”.

Nolan wrote a script for the picture, and also acts as a director and producer of the project.

It is known that part of the filming will take place in Sicily, which is one of the scene of the original poem. Production, which should begin in the spring, starts on the Italian island of Favinignan, in the colloquial of " It is believed that it was there, according to Homer, that Odysseus should have landed with his team.

Odyssey is the third joint work of Nolan and Damon. The actor previously appeared in a secondary role in the Bayopic "