Tickets for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Go on Sale a Year Before Release
According to cinemadrame News Agency, IMAX tickets for Christopher Nolan’s film The Odyssey have gone on sale exactly one year before its release. These tickets are being pre-sold even though the film’s trailer has only been shown in cinemas, and the cast and crew have only recently arrived in Scotland for filming.
It was previously reported that the 2-hour and 40-minute film The Odyssey will be the first movie in history to be shot entirely in IMAX 70mm format.
Selling tickets for a film that is still in production, if not unprecedented, is extremely rare. Warner Bros. began selling 70mm tickets for The Dark Knight Rises six months before its release in 2012, but this might be the first time a studio has started ticket sales a full year prior to release.
The film’s story follows Odysseus, played by Matt Damon, and his 10-year journey home after the Trojan War. Robert Pattinson, Jon Bernthal, John Leguizamo, Samantha Morton, Himesh Patel, Elliot Page, Bill Irwin, Jesse Garcia, Ryan Hurst, and Will Yun Lee are also set to appear in the film.
Zendaya will play Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war and Odysseus’s guide, while Charlize Theron will appear as Circe (also spelled Kirke), the goddess of magic who traps Odysseus and his crew on an island. Anne Hathaway, who previously collaborated with Nolan on Interstellar, will play Penelope, Odysseus’s wife. Benny Safdie will be seen as Agamemnon, the Greek commander in the Trojan War, and Lupita Nyong’o as Clytemnestra, Agamemnon’s wife, who plays a key role in his fate.
The Odyssey is scheduled for release on July 17, 2026.
