The shooting of Odyssey It is not over yet … but Christopher Nolan’s fans already have their place. In the United States, places for Odyssey From Christopher Nolan, sold this July 17, a year until the day before the movie launch, he is already tearing. However, only certain projections are worried in the rooms with 70 mm IMAX screens, the director’s favorite format.
Marketing block or response to a specific application? Probably a little of both. This presale, undoubtedly one of the most anticipated in history, an interview in any case the impatience of the filmmaker’s fans. In Australia, Informa Le Guardian, director of the IMAX room in Melbourne, even speaks of a “cinematographic tourism.” The cinephiles organize their vacations according to the projections.
“We already have people who have bought their tickets for ‘The Odyssey’ and who are now trying to find flights from Sydney, New Zealand, etc. to come here,” says this room operator.
It should be said that Christopher Nolan is today one of the most “financing” filmmakers in the world.
Your last movie, OppenheimerSeven times, the Oscar winner, who marks the director’s passage to the Universal team (previously officiated in Warner Bros.) has generated more than $ 975 million worldwide and $ 191 million only in IMAX rooms, which have long published completed, according to Variety.
Four years before, Principle He had raised more than $ 365 million at the world box office according to box office mojo figures; Dunkirque533 million; Interstellar759 million; The dark gentleman gets up1.1 billion, Beginning839 million, and The dark gentleman: the black gentleman1 billion.
In France, its latest blockbusters have easily exceeded 2 million admissions according to CBO: Oppenheimer (4.5 million admissions), Principle (2.3 million), Dunkirque (2.6 million), Interstellar (2.7 million), The dark gentleman gets up (4.4 million), Beginning (4.9 million) and The dark gentleman: the black gentleman (3 million).
Stars
Everything presses to think that his epic adaptation of Homer’s poem, written at the end of the seventh century BC. C., will know the same destination. In the casting, an Ultrafleuri Star audience: Matt Damon in the role of Ulysses, Tom Holland in his son Télémaque, but also Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Benny Safdie, Jon Bernthal or Lupita Nyong’o. .
The Universal leader even sees in this film the masterpiece of a generation, for which Homer himself, very frankly, would have been very proud. “
The American-British peplum, written and produced by the filmmaker, accompanied by his wife Emma Thomas, recounts the ten-year trip from Ulises, Greek king of Ithaca, after the Trojan War. On his way, he meets mythical beings such as the Polypheme Cyclops, Las Sirenas and the goddess-Sorcière Ciré, until his meeting with his wife, the Pénlope Petute.
First 70 second extract
According to Variety, his shooting, for the first time in its entire IMAX, began in the spring of 2025, with shots on the island of Favignana in Sicily, but also in the United Kingdom, Morocco, Scotland and Ireland.
In addition, its launch in July, such asOppenheimer, Dunkirque, Beginning and The dark gentlemanSuggest the best. In France, as tradition dictates, the film is scheduled two brief days before, on July 15, 2026.
But a first extract of 70 seconds in certain dark rooms has already been transmitted before filtering in Tiktok and X. Test, once again, that the expectations around the film are immense.
Source: BFM TV
