Christopher Nolan has always made epic movies, but they’re usually about sci-fi adventures or historical events. His next project, however, is capital-E Epic, an adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, the epic poem written thousands of years ago. The cast is starting to stack up, ranging from stars Matt Damon and Tom Holland to Mia Goth, who will apparently play a non-speaking role.
We now have confirmation of who Matt Damon is playing in The Odyssey, and it confirms fan speculation — and fuels the possibility that a classic Nolan technique will be repeated. In the first-look image for the film, we see Matt Damon decked out in Ancient Greek armor as Odysseus, the hero at the center of a decade-long journey back to his homeland of Ithaca.
