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Dwayne Johnson Shares His Reaction To All Those Memes About His Moana Wig

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Dwayne Johnson has insisted that he took the jibes about the way his character looks in the new live-action reimagining of Moana in his stride.

Released this coming Friday, a decade after the animated version of Moana hit cinemas, Disney’s latest remake will see Johnson reprising his role as Maui, the character he voiced in the beloved original film.

However, when the first teaser for the movie premiered earlier this year, many admitted they found The Rock’s wig a little distracting, leading to it becoming something of a meme on social media.

“I laughed so fucking hard, when we first came out and people saw me in a wig for the first time, and they memed me,” he told Variety at the film’s premiere.

“The internet did the internet. It was very, very funny. I was like, ‘OK, it’s alright, just see the movie, wait till you see it’.”

And while the former wrestler insisted he never wore his Maui wig out and about, he “can maybe confirm” that he wore it “at around two o’clock in the morning on a Saturday”.

“Just saying,” he quipped. “I had a lot of tequila.”

The original Moana film featured Auliʻi Cravalho and Johnson as its titular heroine and her right-hand demi-god.

Moana is now considered a modern Disney classic, and over the last decade, it has consistently appeared among the most-streamed movies of the last 12 months every year.

A sequel, Moana 2, was met with a slightly more tepid response upon its release in 2024, with newcomer Catherine Laga’aia taking over the main role in Disney’s new live-action feature.

Moana songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda – who landed his first Oscar nomination for his work on the first film – also wrote an extra song for the remake, having previously not been involved in the animated sequel.

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Hans Zimmer Almost Never Scored The Lion King — Until He Spoke To His Daughter

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I’m going to be honest – I didn’t even realise the legendary composer Hans Zimmer was behind The Lion King’s famous soundtrack until I heard him talk about it on Classic FM.

Not only did he work on the 1994 classic, but he actually won an Academy Award for Best Original Score (alongside two Grammies and a Golden Globe) for his contribution.

Still, he shared on Classic FM that he had been reluctant to take the role at first.

“I didn’t want to do Lion King, you know, cartoons – why am I doing cartoons?” he recalled.

Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer

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Until 1994, the composer’s work had appeared in live-action classics like Thelma & Louise, Rain Man, A World Apart and Driving Miss Daisy.

“And, oh my God, they might turn [the songs] into musicals. I don’t really like musicals,” the film legend said he thought at the time.

However, Zimmer changed his mind because his daughter, who was six at the time, had never been able to go with him to the premiere of any of the movies he’d worked on, because “all the movies with Ridley Scott are not necessarily child-friendly”.

So he agreed to make the film – but when he sat down to write, more family matters came up for Zimmer.

“My dad died when I was six years old, and here I am sitting in front of this cartoon, and it’s about the death of a father – with fart jokes, admittedly,” he revealed.

“And I realise… it’s a complete lie that children get over this stuff. They don’t get over it, they just find out really clever ways of hiding this stuff.”

The composer shared he couldn’t “hide” his feelings anymore, and “I basically wrote a requiem for my dad, and it became a really serious piece.”

That made it “deeper than your normal cartoon,” both for him and The Lion King’s viewers.

Zimmer has since been credited in mutliple other Disney titles (including Pirates Of The Caribbean, and, perhaps even more surprisingly still, Muppet Treasure Island).

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Steven Spielberg Insists He’d ‘Never Have Used AI’ In Disclosure Day After Emily Blunt Claims

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Steven Spielberg has clarified his stance on AI in cinema after Emily Blunt′ recent comments about their new film, Disclosure Day.

In Spielberg’s new sci-fi blockbuster, Emily plays a local weatherwoman who begins speaking in an unusual, clicking alien language mid-broadcast, for reasons that become apparent over the course of the film.

During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, the British star opened up about the origins of these noises, claiming that Spielberg had told her: “You know, we could do it with AI, or you could do it.”

“I was like, ‘I feel confident I can make some weird noises’,” she then quipped.

Meanwhile, she also revealed to Hot Ones host Sean Evans that AI was something she was “a bit terrified of” when it was apparently presented to her as an option for her Disclosure Day character’s alien language.

Emily Blunt in Disclosure Day
Emily Blunt in Disclosure Day

Since then, Spielberg sat down with ITV News to discuss the film, during which Emily’s comments about him supposedly offering to create these sounds with generative AI were brought up.

“I would never have used AI,” he insisted. “I would have gone the old-fashioned way, you get a dolphin, an elephant, you slow it down, you speed it up, you play it backwards.”

He added that his Oscar-winning sound designer, Gary Rydstrom, would have found an organic way to make the sounds had Emily not been able to do them herself.

Spielberg has put his foot down on using generative AI during the filmmaking process in the past.

“I’m not willing to substitute, because I don’t really believe in sentience,” he said on the IMO podcast in March. “I don’t believe there is any substitute for the soul. I don’t think that is an algorithm that is inventible.”

He claimed: “Use AI as a tool, but do not use AI as the final word on anything creative. That’s where I draw the line.”

Explaining how she settled on the sounds that eventually made it into Disclosure Day, she told Entertainment Weekly that she had sent the iconic filmmaker voice notes of herself “clicking, humming, doing weird Barry White low singing mixed with clicking mixed with Morse code sounds”.

“I just tried everything,” she added. “We sort of threw the kitchen sink at it, and I think he wanted it to sound mathematical and not too terrifying.”

The Devil Wears Prada actor shared that the final version audiences hear in Disclosure Day is a mix of layered noises she recorded in a sound booth.

Emily also expanded on Hot Ones about how she and the sound team for Disclosure Day ultimately created the chilling sounds that get broadcast across America in the film without AI.

She explained that the sound engineer had one microphone by her mouth and another by her throat to “capture it in a really weird way”.

“And then the sound designer went away and created that weird sound,” she continued. “Even kind of leading up to that moment where she starts speaking in this non-human language, it’s a four-minute oner that we shot that leads up to that moment where she’s gradually sort of disintegrating.”

Disclosure Day is out now in cinemas.

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Eight Books To Read From 2026’s Best TV And Movie Adaptations

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Whether it’s the new Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility adaptations (this time from Netflix and Focus Features, respectively) or yet another instalment in the Dune franchise, 2026′s film and TV schedule ought to make readers pretty happy.

There’s something for sci-fi, romance, and classic lit lovers alike – bonus points if you’re a fan of Twilight star Robert Pattinson, who’s set to appear in both Christopher Nolan flick The Odyssey and Dune: Part Three this year.

Zendaya will also feature in both movies alongside her The Drama co-star.

If you want to read ahead of this year’s releases or are keen to find out more about the origins of the movies and shows already out this year, we’ve got your back (or should that be your spine?).

Here are eight books to read from 2026′s most exciting book-to-screen options:

1) Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

Ryan Gosling at the Project Hail Mary premiere
Ryan Gosling at the Project Hail Mary premiere

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The 2021 sci-fi novel focuses on teacher Ryland Grace, who wakes up on a spaceship one day with no memory of how he got there. Then, he learns he’s accidentally become humanity’s last hope (space enthusiasts will be pleased to learn that some of its scientific details are NASA-backed).

The movie stars Ryan Gosling, Oscar nominee Sandra Hüller, and, if you listen close enough, Meryl Streep. Even better news: it’s set to be released on streamer MGM+ on Thursday, June 18, in the UK, and can be rented through YouTube or Amazon Prime already.

Movie release date: It came out on March 9, 2026

2) Sunrise On The Reaping, by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games author’s prequel explores the experience Katniss and Peeta’s tutor, Haymitch, had as a young tribute in Panem’s earlier Games.

Portrayed by Owen Wilson in the original movies, Sunrise On The Reaping’s Haymitch will be played by Joseph Zada (previously part of Prime Video’s YA adaptation, We Were Liars) instead. The cast will also include Ralph Fiennes, Regretting You’s McKenna Grace, and Hocus Pocus 2′s Whitney Peak.

Movie release date: 20 November, 2026

3) Rivals, by Jilly Cooper

David Tennant at a Rivals season 2 screening
David Tennant at a Rivals season 2 screening

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The 1988 novel is the second of Dame Jilly Cooper’s 11 Rutshire Chronicles books (the last, Tackle!, was published much later than the others, in 2023).

Not only is the Rivals book filled with all the sex, scandal, and ’80s glamour you’d expect, rumour has it that the production company that made the Disney+ version has the rights to nine of the original 10 books – meaning readers who keep leafing through the series could be richly rewarded later on.

While 2026′s second Rivals season deviates from the book at times, it’s proven a hit among viewers and critics alike.

TV show release date: the first season is available to stream on Disney+, as are the first six episodes of season two. However, the series has taken a break and is expected to return to the streamer in November 2026.

4) Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

It’s no secret I’m a bit of an Austen fan, but even those who don’t usually go in for Regency novels ought to give the classic book a go. The funny, quietly subversive story focuses on the almost-certainly-financially-screwed Bennet sisters, the ridiculous and cynical Georgian marriage market, and some very eligible real estate.

If nothing else, reading it will add an extra layer of enjoyment to on-screen hits like The Other Bennet Sister and Bridget Jones.

Plus, when the 2026 Netflix series (starring Emma Corrin and Olivia Colman) comes out, you can decide for yourself whether screenwriter Dolly Alderton kept faithful ot the text – or, like Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, carved her own controversial path.

TV show release date: autumn, 2026

5) The Odyssey, by Homer

The way this Ancient Greek poem is talked about, you’d swear it wasn’t basically a sex and violence-packed soap opera. But in many ways, soldier Odysseus’ long journey home is exactly that – he meets with fantastical creatures, evil witches, and sneaky sirens during what must surely go down in history as the world’s most eventful commute.

It seems Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which stars Matt Damon in the lead role, Anne Hathaway as his wife Penelope and Tom Holland as his son Telemachus, alongside Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Travis Scott, Charlize Theron and Robert Pattinson, will be similarly impressive.

Not only is the movie shot entirely with IMAX cameras – a first for director – but the star-studded cast has described it as “unlike anything that I’ve ever seen before” and “exactly what you want [from] a summer movie”.

Movie release date: July 17, 2026

6) The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood

A sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, this story is set 15 years after the cliffhanger ending of the first book. Aunt Lydia shows her mettle as she fights against the oppressive regime set in the original novel.

The Disney+ series sees Ann Dowd, who also played Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid’s Tale series, reprise her role. She stars alongside One Battle After Another actor Chase Infiniti and Bafta winner Lucy Halliday in a show critics have dubbed “ravishing” and “a triumph”.

TV show release: The first season is already out on Disney+.

7) Dune and Dune Messiah, by Frank Herbert

me reading the first Dune trilogy, despite my aversion to sci-fi
me reading the first Dune trilogy, despite my aversion to sci-fi

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To be honest, the first novel will see you through most of the first two movies, and is more than enough to call yourself a sandworm bookworm. But Dune: Part Three leans heavily on Dune: Messiah, the second in Herbert’s canonical six-part series.

It’s less action-packed than the first entry, but it contains arguably weirder characters – like a gas-guzzling fish-human hybrid – that make you wonder where the movie, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, and Florence Pugh, could possibly go.

Movie release date: December 18, 2026 (just about enough time to finish the first trilogy)

8) Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

It might not be as essential an Austen read as Pride and Prejudice. But Elinor and Marianne Dashwood’s plight is no less engaging than the Bennet sisters’: after some significant downsizing, the family has to make their way in a very new society. Yearning and love troubles inevitably ensue.

This year’s movie marks the first screen adaptation of the book since the BBC’s excellent 2008 TV series. Only time will tell if stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Hanna star Esmé Creed-Miles will prove just as dazzling on the big screen.

Movie release date: September 25, 2026.

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Critics Hail Steven Spielberg’s ‘Gripping’ Disclosure Day As His Best Film In Years

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Critics have been weighing in on Disclosure Day, which sees Steven Spielberg returning to his beloved science fiction genre.

In his latest big-screen offering, the legendary filmmaker is once again exploring the idea of extraterrestrial beings coming to earth – only this time he’s taking a close look at the philosophical and religious implications of an alien invasion.

Disclosure Day boasts a star-studded cast that includes Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor and Colin Firth, and tells the story of a small group of individuals who become involved in a government conspiracy to keep the existence of intelligent alien life a secret.

Early reviews hailed the film as a “gripping” and “thrilling’ masterpiece from the legendary director, earning an 82% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

However, not all reviewers were in love with the new sci-fi blockbuster, with some critics – including several from prominent British outlets – claiming it is “drab” and a “rehash” of Spielberg’s past works.

Here’s a selection of what critics are saying about Disclosure Day…

“Disclosure Day feels not like a repetition but like a thunderclap culmination, the kind of movie you make when, at age 79, you’re not only at the peak of your skills, but you realise time is running out. What, exactly, do you want to say, and how do you find the pictures, the words?

“The pictures and words are all right there in Disclosure Day, an eleventh-hour plea to reconnect with all that makes us human, even if we need to invoke the help of imaginary aliens to do it.”

Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor as seen in one of Disclosure Day's most dramatic sequences
Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor as seen in one of Disclosure Day’s most dramatic sequences

“Disclosure Day has many layers, but it is also a crackerjack rip-roaring ride for much of its running time, a movie that essentially centres on two main characters in search of answers to what is happening to them, keeping the audience in the dark as much as they are.”

“What Spielberg has conjured here is some of his vintage boldness in transforming the cinema screen into a magical theatre of childlike wonder.”

“While Spielberg has never lost his sense of fun, Disclosure Day is uniquely fortified by the sense that he’s still searching for new ways to enrapture a jaded audience with his spectacle, and the movie’s ethos becomes that much harder to deny every time its director manages to suspend our disbelief all over again.

“There might not be anything here quite as inventive as the spider robot sequence from Minority Report, but a certain setpiece – the one that starts with a car getting shoved into an oncoming freight train – is as gripping as Hollywood action gets.”

“Disclosure Day is never anything other than entertaining and grade-A fun; rare enough in the movies or anywhere else, rocketing along with barnstorming set-pieces, exhilarating chases, funny lines and a career-topper of a performance from Blunt who may yet be morphing into a female version of Tom Hanks.”

Colin Firth joins fellow Brits Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor in Disclosure Day
Colin Firth joins fellow Brits Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor in Disclosure Day

“The movie duly pulls out all the stops, and then a couple more. As if to say, ‘still got it!’, there are big-ticket action sequences and the screwball comic interludes Spielberg always had a knack for. The ride is rarely dull.”

“There are allegories that can be read about fear of the unknown breeding cruelty and exploitation, but Disclosure Day is first and foremost a propulsive yarn with thematic roots in hope, truth, empathy and perhaps even spirituality.”

IGN (7/10)

“The film is, in a lot of ways, vintage Spielberg: He hasn’t lost a step with a camera that sprints from start to finish, there are some fantastic technical sequences, and the performances from the two leads in particular are great.

“And while Disclosure Day stumbles a bit for me at the finish line in a way that makes some of the film’s other nits a little more worth picking, it’s still an original, big-budget science fiction conversation-starter from one of cinema’s all-time greats.”

“While Disclosure Day doesn’t live up to the high standards he’s [Spielberg] set, it’s still a thrill ride, thumbing its nose at authority and begging its audience for more empathy, not less.

“Even if not all the pieces snap flawlessly into place, Disclosure Day is a reminder of how much magic is still left up Spielberg’s sleeve.”

Two-time Oscar nominee Colman Domingo in Disclosure Day
Two-time Oscar nominee Colman Domingo in Disclosure Day

“[Disclosure Day’s] script exaggerates the best and the worst of how humans might respond to such a revelation, and Spielberg struggles to split the difference between paranoid-thriller cynicism and his usual mode of emotional uplift.

“That waffling ultimately strands Disclosure Day on a heartfelt yet fuzzy middle ground, with a generalised plea for cross-species understanding that, even bolstered by the reliable stirrings of a John Williams score, left me dispiritingly dry-eyed.”

“Spielberg, as part of the film’s publicity, has suggested that he believes in alien visitations, and that he’s an advocate for disclosure. But where Close Encounters tapped into the mystery of all this with an innocence that was both starry-eyed and spectacular, Disclosure Day feels like a thriller docudrama that’s too cut-and-dried about what it believes.

“The actors are quite good (especially Blunt, who makes you feel she’s seeing the uncanny), but for all the film’s slow build it doesn’t take us anywhere overly surprising. It just confirms the ‘truth’ that’s been out there for so long it’s starting to feel like a fairy tale for the dispossessed.”

“Essentially, it’s a drab X-Files episode, or a more conventional One Battle After Another, in which some people we don’t care about are hunted by some other people we don’t care about.”

“Sadly, there’s nothing original here, or at least nothing to match, say, Jordan Peele’s vastly superior UFO drama Nope. Instead it’s just Spielberg badly rehashed, poorly reheated, lukewarm and with extra treacle.”

“It is shot and staged with Spielberg’s signature elegance: a central foot-to-car-to-train chase moves with such breathless lucidity it is as if the director is beaming excitement directly into your brain. But the plotting surrounding the action is often woolly and lopsided, while the tone is an awkward mix of solemnity and silliness.”

Disclosure Day is out in cinemas now.

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Obsession Director Admits He’s Spotted A Major ‘Plot Hole’ In The Hit Film

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In the last month, Obsession has become the world’s latest horror fascination.

The hit film has broken box office records, and got the whole world talking about Bear, Nikki and the mysterious One Wish Willow.

Obsession follows Bear, who comes across a One Wish Willow that is supposed to grant his heart’s desire. However, when he wishes for his crush, Nikki, to fall deeply in love with him, things don’t quite work out as he intended, with deadly consequences for himself and those close to him.

If you’ve been picking apart the film and its meaning over the last few weeks, you may have spotted one part of it that doesn’t quite make sense – and so, apparently, has its director, Curry Barker.

During an interview with Total Film, it was pointed out that other One Wish Willow users had been complaining about how things had turned out for them, with the YouTuber-turned-director then being asked what he thought other people had been wishing for.

“I mean, it’s kind of a plot hole,” he admitted. “It’s something I don’t like to think about too much, because it totally doesn’t make sense that there’s a world of people just making wishes.”

Obsession director Curry Barker has admitted he's spotted a "plot hole" in his hit film
Obsession director Curry Barker has admitted he’s spotted a “plot hole” in his hit film

He added: “It really doesn’t make any sense at all. If the One Wish Willow actually works – which it does in this lore – and people are just making wishes left and right, there would be some crazy [things going on]. Like, dragons would exist.”

As Curry put it, the world in Obsession seems too “normal” for everyone to have access to these wish-granting sticks.

The writer-director went on to try and put forward a theory to explain this plot discrepancy, claiming: “Here’s my take – every time someone makes a wish, they enter into an alternate reality where their wish comes true, so you’re not experiencing everybody’s wish at the same time.”

However, he quickly realised that this theory presented its own issue, brought about when Ian’s billion-dollar wish comes true towards the end of the movie.

“That doesn’t make sense because the money falls from the ceiling,” he joked. “Yeah, it’s broken.”

Meanwhile, Curry has revealed to CinemaBlend that he is brainstorming ways of returning to the Obsession universe and expanding the One Wish Willow lore even further.

“I obviously have a couple more things that I’m excited about next, but I do see Obsession 2, maybe. Or even what really is exciting to me is maybe an anthology, like a one-hour episode,” he said, although we probably shouldn’t expect Nikki to return after that gruesome ending.

“Each episode is a different wish that goes completely off the rails. Maybe I’ll direct the pilot with the same DP, and you could invite other filmmakers to kind of give their spin at it. That would be really cool.”

Obsession is currently in cinemas.

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Tom Holland’s Comments About Playing Spider-Man After 30 Have Come Back To Haunt Him

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Back in 2021, Tom Holland made headlines when he told GQ: “If I’m playing Spider-Man after I’m 30, I’ve done something wrong.”

Having now reached that milestone age, his past comments have resurfaced as he gears up for his fourth outing as Peter Parker in the next Spider-Man film, Brand New Day.

So, where does Tom stand on that statement five years later?

“It’s funny, I saw that quote pop up somewhere recently and I kind of reeled, because I was trying to remember what I meant,” Tom told the same magazine in a new interview published the day after his 30th birthday.

The Marvel actor, who is also set to star in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey, then tried to clarify what he meant by his past remarks.

“I think the point of it is that I would love to pass the baton on, and I haven’t achieved that yet,” he explained.

Tom Holland as Spider-Man in Avengers: Infinity War back in 2018
Tom Holland as Spider-Man in Avengers: Infinity War back in 2018

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As for whether he’ll continue Spider-Man again now he’s actually turned 30, he noted: “It’s definitely something that we talk about a lot at the studio. So, maybe I need to change the quote to 37.

“I could also have been trying to leverage Sony and scare them into thinking I wasn’t going to do Spider-Man 4 now that I had a new deal on the horizon. So I don’t know what it could have been. It could’ve been part of a strategy to create fear.”

Notably, it doesn’t sound like Tom plans to give up that iconic red and blue suit anytime soon, calling the role “the joy of my life”.

“I now kind of stand on the plinth of like, I’ll do it for as long as they’ll have me,” Tom enthused.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day sees Destin Daniel Cretton take over the directing duties from Jon Watts.

Tom also managed to get Marvel to give him a six-month break to make The Odyssey, in which he plays Odysseus’ son, Telemachus, a move which appears to have breathed life into the MCU franchise.

“We wouldn’t have had the six-month period to develop the script with Destin to get it to a place where it is now,” the actor explained.

“I truly believe that we’ve made the best version of any Spider-Man movie going.”

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is released in cinemas on 31 July 2026.

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Matt Damon Says The Odyssey Is ‘Definitely The Biggest’ Film He’s ‘Ever Done’

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If you weren’t already hyped for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey, you definitely will be when you listen to the cast talking about how epic it is.

With not long left to go until the much-hyped film hits cinemas, Nolan’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer is already one of the most talked-about new releases of 2026.

The film adapts Homer’s epic Greek poem and follows the King of Ithaca, Odysseus, on his 10-year struggle to return home after the Trojan War. On his mammoth journey, he encounters mythical monsters and violent enemies, using his wit to defeat suitors plotting to take his thrones.
In a new video featurette to promote the film, Matt Damon, who plays Odysseus, hyped up the scale of the mythological epic.

“This is definitely the biggest movie I’ve ever done in my career, in terms of its scale,” the actor, who also appeared in Oppenheimer, teased, before adding: “[It’s] definitely the biggest movie I have done in terms of its ambition.”

Zendaya, who plays Athena, also praised Nolan’s ability to “do scope and action and fantasy, but also heart and humanity and depth and rawness”.

Matt Damon and Zendaya in The Odyssey
Matt Damon and Zendaya in The Odyssey

Her co-star, and real-life husband, Tom Holland, who plays Odysseus’ son Telemachus, also explained how it felt that this was Nolan’s best work to date.

“I feel like this particular picture is an accumulation of all of his skills and all of his experiences and him at his best, going for it,” he enthused.

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Last month, in GQ, Matt reflected on how Hollywood films as epic and ambitious as The Odyssey are now becoming an anomaly.

“Because of where the movie business is going, it was a really weird movie for me personally, in the sense that I had almost a nostalgic feeling the entire time I was making it, because it felt like movies were when I started working,” he explained.

Matt added: “And I know that that’s going away. I knew that this was the last chance I was ever going to have to do something like this.”

The Odyssey filmed on location, with the shoot taking the cast and crew to seven countries in total.

“Every single location on this movie would’ve been the hardest location on any other movie I’ve ever done,” Matt told GQ. “And they just went back-to-back.”

The Odyssey is set to hit cinemas on 17 July.

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