Ugh. Another round of hype. I swear every time I open GQ or whatever, it's someone saying this is going to “change cinema forever.” Okay. Cool. Sure. I'll just throw that on top of the other 42 movies that were supposed to change cinema forever. 🙄
So now it's Tom Holland. Yeah, Spider-Man Tom. He's Telemachus in Nolan's The Odyssey, and he told GQ it was “the job of a lifetime.” Said it was the best film set he's ever been on. Incredible. Amazing. All that. Honestly, I barely blinked before the words “unlike anything we've ever seen” came flying at my face.
Anyway—what was I saying?
Right. July 2026. That's the release. Still a year out. But we're already in the “buzz cycle.” And not like normal buzz. Like, existential, volcanic, IMAX-core buzz. This thing's apparently still shooting. Six months in. They just moved to Scotland. Scotland! It's giving Odyssey: The Neverending Shoot.
And yes, it's Nolan. Of course it is. Man got a $250M blank check from Warner Bros after Oppenheimer crossed a billion. That's billion with a B. I guess when your last movie turns nuclear physics into Oscar bait, they just hand you a time machine and say “do Homer.”
But here's where my brain short-circuits: people keep saying “they'll never make a movie like this again.” Like… how do you know? How do you know that? I mean, I get it. IMAX on the ocean, lava islands, myth meets hard sci-fi realism—whatever that means. But also, c'mon. We said that about Interstellar. And Dune. And Avatar 2. And maybe even Cats (don't quote me).
There was a quote from the stunt guy, James Newman—“Nolan at his best. No holds barred.” Okay but, like, have we recovered from Tenet yet? Just asking.
My cousin thought this movie already came out. I didn't even correct him. I just said “yeah, it was long.”
And you know what's wild? You blink, it's trending. You breathe, it's gone. It's like movies are ghosts now. Or Tinder dates. Swipe, buzz, next.
I miss when you had to wait for things. Waiting made it feel bigger.
Maybe this is gonna blow my mind. Or maybe it's just going to be another big-budget fever dream where I can't remember who died or why. I dunno. I want to care. I do. But I've read this headline before, I think.
