Christopher Nolan has become known for making big-budget movies overflowing with scope and spectacle, from the Dark Knight trilogy to Oppenheimer a few years ago. So it’s saying something that his take on The Odyssey, which arrives to the 2026 movies schedule this summer, might be his biggest feature yet. Like Oppenheimer, The Odyssey boasts a massive ensemble cast, and one of the actors, Corey Hawkins, talked about how he had go up and down a “full mountain” on his first day of filming.
I’m exhausted just thinking about that, so imagine how Hawkins was feeling having to do this as his first order of business on The Odyssey. The actor, known from movies like Straight Outta Compton and The Last Voyage of the Demeter, recalled the experience to Variety, saying:
