After the success of “Oppenheimer” in 2023, filmmaker Christopher Nolan moved on to his subsequent venture: a prolonged, big-budget rendition of “The Odyssey.” For some time, precise details about the venture was scant, with just a few photos and particulars being given to the press. The first trailer for “The Odyssey” ultimately launched in theaters with James Cameron’s “Avatar: Hearth and Ash” in December 2025, lastly permitting audiences to see some precise footage from the movie. Maybe fittingly, the promo is mainly a speedrun of the tip of “The Iliad,” with Greek troopers being introduced into Troy through the Trojan Horse, solely to spring an assault and win the Trojan Conflict. Odyssey (Matt Damon) is current, after all, and he’s destined to change into very misplaced on his return house to Ithaca.
Whereas Nolan was growing “The Odyssey,” nevertheless, he stored the venture near his chest. Nolan’s movies are usually broadly celebrated by Hollywood, audiences, and critics alike, so he has to stay extremely secretive as to not permit any spoilers to leak to the general public. That is immensely tough, as his productions are usually huge, sporting large casts of well-known actors. Nolan appears to have change into very adept at discretion, nevertheless, as information about his motion pictures are sometimes solely launched by publicists. Till publicists and advertisers launch footage from his movies, Nolan’s many followers can solely feed themselves on rumors and conjecture.
Many of those rumors are, after all, primarily based wholly in fantasy. Talking to Empire Magazine, Nolan talked about “The Odyssey” and addressed a few of the weird rumors surrounding his film, a few of which had been utterly baffling. No, he was not engaged on a vampire film or a remake of John Badham’s 1983 helicopter thriller “Blue Thunder” (as amusing as he discovered these rumors).
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was rumored to be a vampire film or a remake
“Blue Thunder” was solely a modest hit when it was launched in 1983 and is barely remembered by individuals of a really particular age. Therefore, it could be a bit baffling for Nolan to remake one thing with out that a lot cultural clout. Then once more, the little-seen 1974 B-movie “Gone in 60 Seconds” acquired a high-profile Hollywood remake in 2000, so what do I do know? A “Blue Thunder” remake was additionally solely one of many many rumors about Nolan’s subsequent directorial effort. Equally, for those who heard that Nolan was developing a 1920s-set vampire movie, that, too, was only a rumor, as was the tantalizing declare that Nolan was making a characteristic movie adaptation of the famed cult Sixties TV sequence “The Prisoner.” That might have been superior, little doubt, but it surely was not on his radar.
How do these rumors get began? Who can say? Even Nolan has no concept. He would not hate the rumors, after all, however he’s a bit confused by a few of them. Nonetheless, he desires followers to have their enjoyable. Here is what he needed to say in regards to the “Blue Thunder” rumor particularly:
“I believe individuals simply invent stuff. […] I don’t know the place that comes from. That is the drawback of by no means telling individuals what we’re doing: individuals are free to invent it for months and months. However, you already know, that is a part of the enjoyable.”
With “The Odyssey” attributable to open in theaters on July 17, 2026, Nolan could already be planning his subsequent venture. Let’s get the rumor mill began early this time. Nolan’s subsequent film goes to be, uh, a remake of Stuart Gordon’s “Robot Jox.”
