Filmmaker Christopher Nolan is all set to arrive in Mumbai in July for the India premiere of his new mythic action epic, The Odyssey. He will be accompanied by film stars Matt Damon, Tom Holland, and Academy
Award- winning producer Emma Thomas. The Odyssey will be the first Christopher Nolan film ever to premiere in India.
The filmmaker and Universal Pictures International have designated Mumbai as an official stop on The Odyssey’s global premiere tour, placing Mumbai alongside London, Paris and New York. The Odyssey arrives in theatres worldwide July 17. The India premiere will be held at PVR Icon IMAX: Phoenix Palladium in Mumbai.
The Odyssey is the first feature film shot entirely with IMAX cameras. The film stars Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Samantha Morton, Zendaya and Charlize Theron, and is produced by Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan for their company, Syncopy.
Written for the screen and directed by Nolan, The Odyssey brings Homer’s foundational saga of Odysseus’s decade-long voyage home after the fall of Troy to the screen. Damon portrays Odysseus, the battle-hardened hero whose return to Ithaca is delayed by fate, monsters and the wrath of the gods. Universal had earlier shared a striking first-look image of Damon in costume in February.
Actor John Leguizamo, who also stars in the film, highlighted Nolan’s distinctive working style. He said last year, “He’s (Nolan) not doing it by committee, he’s not doing it by what the studio says.” He added, “He’s like an indie filmmaker but with crazy money.”
Following the massive success of Oppenheimer, which won seven Oscars in 2024, Nolan has once again set expectations high. Reflecting on his creative process, the filmmaker earlier said, “Whatever I do, I have to feel like I own it completely. I have to make it original to me: The initial seed of an idea may come from elsewhere, but it has to go through my fingers on a keyboard and come out through my eyes alone.”
Advance ticket sales for the film are already open, and in many places, the prices are as high as Rs 3300 per seat. Even though many fans expressed how the high prices have come across as exclusionary, many early tickets are also sold out. The film will be released on July 17.
