Christopher Nolan has his Odysseus for his movie adaptation of The Odyssey, and it’s Matt Damon. Universal Pictures just confirmed it with a moody Instagram post, because the past is sad and grey and gritty in the movies now.
At 54 years old, Damon is the perfect age to play the Greek hero, who was canonically pushing middle age by the time the Trojan War broke out. Fans of the Homeric epic were initially worried that 28-year-old Tom Holland, who is also attached to the project, would be cast as the lead in keeping with Hollywood’s obsession with youth.
