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Elliot Page Is Joining Christopher Nolan’s Adaptation of The Odyssey

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Elliot Page (The Umbrella Academy, Inception) has joined the already stacked cast of Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey. Mia Goth is also rumored to have signed on for a role.


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The Hollywood Reporter confirmed Page’s casting on Friday, alongside an absolutely stacked cast that now includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, John Leguizamo, Benny Safdie, and Jon Bernthal, per Variety. Per THR, Himesh Patel, Bill Irwin and Samantha Morton were also added to the roster along with Page.


Nolan’s adaptation of the Homerian Greek epic was initially announced back in December 2024, and it’s set to be released on July 17, 2026. In case you’re unfamiliar with one of the foundational texts of Western literature, The Odyssey is an epic poem written by Homer circa the 8th century B.C. It is the sequel to the Iliad, and follows the titular Odysseus on his decade-long journey home after the end of the Trojan War, which is outlined in the former epic.


Along the way, he encounters countless deities, monsters, and mystics — some friends, some foes. Essentially, we wouldn’t have the kind of epics for which Nolan has become known without The Odyssey, making him the perfect director for the filmic adaptation of the poem.



This marks the second collaboration between Nolan and Page, who previously starred in Inception as Ariadne, a graduate student named for the Homerian character who helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur and escape the labyrinth. Ariadne appears in The Odyssey’s original text, but Page who has since come out as a transgender man, will assuredly be playing a different role – though his part has yet to be announced.


I don’t know about you, but I was absolutely one of those gay people who was particularly fixated on Greek mythology as a child. Yes, part of it was definitely the prevalence of the Percy Jackson series when I was growing up, but the classics have always had a particularly queer draw. Though details about the production are scarce, one of the many questions that plagues us is out of the dozens of fantastical characters in the Odyssey, who might the actor portray? Aeolus, ruler of the winds? Hermes, the messenger god with the cunty winged sandals? Any which way, we’ll be absolutely seated come July 2026.

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