A movie adaptation of Homer's "The Odyssey" isn't set to premiere for another year, but some screenings have already sold out.

A year ahead of its theatrical debut, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has already triggered a ticket-buying frenzy. Imax 70mm screenings for the July 17–19, 2026 weekend sold out within an hour of going live at midnight ET on July 17.

Do the events of the Odyssey actually take place in the Baltic Sea in Scandinavia rather than the Mediterranean as commonly believed?

For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of heroism, gods and the enduring human spirit. While The Iliad plunges us into the raw intensity of the Trojan War’s final weeks,

The cinematic experience is being turned into something like Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour ticket war, as IMAX tickets for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie, The Odyssey, are already being resold for insane prices.

The master of cinematic grandeur is back, and this time, Christopher Nolan is diving into the depths of ancient myth. With the release of the first teaser for ‘The Odyssey’, fans got a glimpse at what might become one of the most ambitious adaptations in movie history.