If the return of Frank Fortress on this week’s Daredevil: Born Once more trailer has had you craving extra Jon Bernthal in your life, then boy do we now have an eyebrow elevating little bit of casting information for you. Per Deadline‘s reporting, the star of The Punisher has develop into the most recent performing heavyweight to board Christopher Nolan’s mythic epic The Odyssey. He joins a solid whose constellational line-up now contains *deep breath* Tom Holland, Zendaya, Matt Damon, Lupita Nyong’o, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, and Robert Pattinson.
Believed to be capturing as early as subsequent month, Nolan’s The Odyssey — an adaptation of Homer’s epic chronicle of Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and his lengthy and threatening journey dwelling after the Trojan Battle — is already shaping as much as be one more singular cinematic occasion from the Oppenheimer Oscar winner. With filming scheduled to happen throughout the globe, a funds reportedly in The Darkish Knight‘s heady $250m+ area, and the promise of “model new IMAX movie expertise” getting used to take Homer’s Historic Greek yarn and realise it anew on the most important canvas possible, even the phrase epic feels like one thing of an understatement when describing what Nolan’s thirteenth movie is aiming for. And now that Bernthal has entered the fray, a brand new addition to Nolan’s rogues gallery, Odysseus’ punishing journey has simply acquired that further bit extra Punishing — for him no less than, not us!
We do not know who precisely Bernthal is about to play within the film, penned by Nolan himself, simply but. Nor do we all know who anybody’s enjoying for that matter simply but (the sensible cash suggests Damon may very well be Odysseus and Holland his son Telemachus, or, in a extra Nolanesque transfer, the 2 might play youthful and older Odysseus’ even). Heck, we do not even know if Nolan’s doing a straight-up adaptation of The Odyssey or whether or not he’ll sneak in a temporal pincer motion someplace alongside the road. However we do know that the movie will hit IMAX screens on 17 July, 2026. Solely 540 days to go…
