You Can Pre-Order Tickets to Christopher Nolan’s Next Movie up to a Year in Advance (for Some Reason)
If you’d rather plan ahead , you can pre-order tickets for early screenings of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey now, a full year before the film’s July 17, 2026 release date. Pre-sale tickets are only available for select screenings of the 70mm IMAX version of the film in select cities across the U.S. and Canada.
Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic will be the first feature film shot entirely in IMAX, the director’s favorite format. Starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, the film will tell the story of the Greek king’s ten-year, perilous journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War (if Nolan sticks to the source material).
Universal’s marketing department is clearly developing a long-term strategy to market Odyssey as a high-end, prestige film by focusing on this early IMAX release. Among cinephiles, IMAX is considered the only way to truly see Nolan’s latest film, Oppenheimer, and nearly a fifth of its $975 million box office haul came from IMAX screenings. Cinephiles will undoubtedly snap up those tickets quickly, so if you really want to be the first (and have any real faith that the world will still be around in a year), I’d advise getting in quick. If you’re a more frequent moviegoer, tickets for other smaller-format screenings of Odyssey will undoubtedly be available for pre-order (much) closer to the film’s release.