“A Journey Begins” is the tagline for Christopher Nolan‘s subsequent movie “The Odyssey.” Few film lovers anticipated the search to start out so early.

Imax tickets for “The Odyssey” will go on sale on July 17, 2025 — a complete yr earlier than Common Photos’ star-studded motion epic is slated to hit the large display. However there’s a caveat: Tickets will solely be accessible at film theaters with Imax 70mm screens (the director’s most popular format) — and only for choose showtimes. Tickets for different codecs and screenings are prone to go on sale a lot, a lot nearer to the movie’s launch date.

Common and Imax declined to remark.

It’s uncommon {that a} studio would put tickets on sale up to now prematurely, however anticipation is excessive for Nolan’s cinematic follow-up to 2023’s “Oppenheimer,” which additional confirmed the director as a field workplace draw after producing a staggering $975 million globally and profitable the Oscar for finest image.

A roughly minute-long teaser trailer for “The Odyssey” was lately unveiled completely in cinemas forward of screenings for “Jurassic World Rebirth” and “Superman,” debuting over a yr earlier than the movie’s launch date. The teaser has but to formally debut on-line, maintaining with Nolan’s longstanding prioritization of the large display expertise.

An adaptation of the Homer’s Greek epic, “The Odyssey” stars Matt Damon as Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, and chronicles his lengthy and threatening return house after the Trojan Battle. The starry ensemble consists of Tom Holland as Odysseus’ son Telemachus, in addition to Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron and Jon Bernthal. Nolan is re-teaming with Common, the studio that backed “Oppenheimer.” The movie can be launched on July 17, 2026.

“The Odyssey” would be the first film shot totally with Imax cameras. Nolan has been a loyalist to the high-tech format ever since his 2008 superhero epic “The Darkish Knight” grew to become the primary Hollywood launch to make the most of Imax cameras for choose motion sequences. Since then, Nolan has used Imax cameras on movies comparable to 2010’s “Inception,” 2014’s “Interstellar” and 2020’s “Tenet.” Within the case of “Oppenheimer,” some cinephiles crossed state traces to catch the movie in Imax. On account of the outsized demand, the premium format contributed a large 20% of general field workplace grosses for the very best image winner.