Christopher Nolan‘s next big epic at Universal, The Odyssey, has added Himesh Patel, Elliot Page, Bill Irwin and Samantha Morton.
For Patel, Page and Irwin, it’s a reteam with the 2x Oscar-winning filmmaker. Patel starred in Nolan’s 2020 Tenet, Page in 2010’s Inception, and Irwin win 2014’s Interstellar. For 2x Oscar nominee Morton, it’s her first time working with Nolan.
The foursome joins a booming ensemble that counts Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Benny Safdie and Charlize Theron.
Nolan’s mythic action epic, shot with new Imax cameras, is based on the ancient Greek poem by Homer which follows Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and his perilous journey home after the Trojan War. The classic explores themes of heroism, loyalty, cunning and the struggle against divine will. The tale includes iconic stories like Odysseus’ encounters with the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens and the witch-goddess Circe, culminating in a reunion with his wife Penelope.
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The film will of course be screened in Imax when it hits cinemas everywhere on July 17, 2026; that third weekend of July a good luck date for Nolan where he’s launched such hits as Dark Knight, Dunkirk, Oppenheimer among other titles.
Patel broke out in Universal’s romcom Yesterday and starred in Don’t Look Up, the HBO series Station Eleven, Netflix’s Enola Holmes 2 and recently the Sundance world premiere Bubble & Squeak. The actor is repped by WME, 42 and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
Page was Oscar nominated for Juno and counts two Emmy noms in Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program for Gaycation. Credits include Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, and the movies X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: The Last Stand, Whip It and Tilda among others. Page is repped by UTA, Vie Entertainment and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich, Goodell & Gellman.
Irwin is a Tony Award winning actor for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? His feature credits also include Rustin, Spoiler Alert, HBO’s Confirmation, Rachel Getting Married, Bastards, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Higher Ground, Igby Goes Down, Lady in the Water, Dark Matter, Raving, Across The Universe, Popeye, Eight Men Out, Silent Tongue, Illuminata, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, My Blue Heaven, A New Life, Scenes from a Mall, and Stepping Out as well as HBO’s The Gilded Age and Paramount+’s Star Trek: Discovery. He is repped by Innovative Artists and Viking Entertainment.
Morton was Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Sweet and Lowdown and for Best Actress in 2004’s In America. Her feature credits count Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, The Whale, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Elizabeth: The Golden Age among others. Morton is repped by UTA, Tavistock Wood Management, Omni Artists and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.
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