How do you bring the ancient world’s most famous epic to the modern screen, almost 2,800 years after it was created? If you’re Academy Award winning film-maker Christopher Nolan, you assemble arguably the most exciting ensemble cast in recent history. This summer’s highly anticipated cinematic event, The Odyssey, brings together a collection of Hollywood powerhouses – from Oscar-winning veterans to era-defining young talent – for this mythical, action-epic, a story of one-eyed monsters, gods, sweeping landscapes and a hero who just wants to get home.
Matt Damon
As Odysseus, the warrior king of Ithaca who won an unwinnable war and now, relatably, just wants to go home to be reunited with his wife and son, Matt Damon is doing what he does best. The Oscar-winning actor has become the go-to lead for blockbusters about heroic but human men trying to get back to their own beds: from space in Interstellar and The Martian, to bomb-building in Oppenheimer.
