Cinema tickets for Christopher Nolan's next epic selling for $400 one year befor
The much-hyped film, starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, is set to be released in over 20 locations on July 17 to 19 and Thursday July 16 next year in Imax 70mm film; the best feature film format in the world.
Couple this high-resolution format with Nolan's name and it being the first commercial feature film to be shot entirely on Imax film cameras – of which there are only eight in the world – and fans are going mad for The Odyssey.
Imax announced the ticket drop on Thursday, and The Hollywood Reporter report that within an hour 95% of seats were snapped up, with some appearing on resale websites for up to $400 (£297), way over their average retail price of $25 to $28 (£18.60 to £20.84).
The title, which will be shown in 16 Imax cinemas in the US, is Nolan's follow up to the Oscar-winning Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy.
With a $250million budget, The Odyssey is the most expensive film of his career.
London's BFI Imax is also sold out alongside many US dates, so unlucky if you had blocked out this July weekend in 2026 in the hopes of a cinema trip…
This comes weeks after the first trailer for The Odyssey leaked online from cinemas – where it is exclusively being shown – with fans branding it 'life-changing' already.
Filming is still in progress with the 'mythic action epic' scenes being shot at Findlater Castle in Moray, Scotland, having also been spotted in Greece and Morocco.
The star-studded cast also includes Tom Holland as Telemachus, and Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Jon Bernthal, Robert Pattinson, Charlie Therzon and Mia Goth in roles yet to be confirmed.
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In a July 11 interview with GQ, Holland described his experience on The Odyssey's set.
'The job of a lifetime, without a doubt,' Holland said. 'The best experience I've had on the film set. Incredible. It was exciting. It was different. And I think the movie is going to be unlike anything we've ever seen.'
After Oppenheimer, Nolan is teaming up again with partner Emma Thomas for the film. The pair have been married for just shy of 30 years, and have four children together.
The Odyssey is one of two major epic poems attributed to Homer from around the 8th century BC, and follows on from the first – the Iliad, which focused on the Trojan War. More Trending
It follows the king of Ithaca, Odysseus, on his 10-year quest to return to his home island after a decade at Troy.
Along the way he must contend with the wrath of the gods and perils including being enslaved by a nymph, cannibals, an angry Cyclops, a sea-witch, a treacherous whirlpool and a six-headed monster.
Meanwhile at home on Ithaca, his wife Penelope and now-adult son Telemachus (Holland) must contend with a horde of suitors descending on the palace and pressuring her to choose one of them in the place of her presumed-dead husband so they can take the throne.
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