You Can Pre-Order Tickets for Christopher Nolan's Next Movie a Year in Advance (for Some Reason)

If you like planning way ahead, you can order tickets for the first screenings of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey now, an entire year before the movies release date of July 17, 2026. Pre-sale tickets are only for select showings of the 70mm IMAX version of the movie in a handful of cities in the United States and Canada.

Nolan's adaptation of the Homeric epic will be the first feature film shot entirely in IMAX, the director's preferred format. It stars Matt Damon as Odysseus and tells the story of the Greek king's perilous, 10-year journey home to Ithaca following the Trojan war (if Nolan sticks to the source material).

Universal's marketing department is clearly staking out a long-term strategy for hyping The Odyssey as a high-quality, prestige movie by focusing on the IMAX release this early. Among movie nerds, IMAX is considered the only way to really see Nolan's last movie, Oppenheimer, and nearly a fifth of its $975 million gross came from IMAX screenings. Film connoisseurs will no doubt snap up these tickets fast, so if you really want to be first (and you have adequate faith the world will still be around in a year) I'd act quickly. If you're a more casual film fan, tickets for other screenings of The Odyssey in lesser film formats will undoubtedly be available for pre-order (much) closer to the movie's release date.