The Odyssey is Christopher Nolan's biggest movie, grossing a record-breaking $1.35 billion worldwide and surpassing Deadpool & Wolverine to become the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever.
While Spider-Man: Brand New Day is by far the biggest movie of 2026, The Odyssey has held its own in recent weeks, grossing over $500 million domestically. Now, though, Universal Pictures is preparing to set sail for the movie's Digital and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray releases.
Variety (via SFFGazette.com) has revealed that The Odyssey will be released on Digital and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on November 17. Typically, a new movie hits Digital platforms first, but that will not be the case with Nolan's latest epic.
Interestingly, this is the same approach that Universal took with Oppenheimer, which also arrived on premium video-on-demand and physical media at the same time.
Details on special features, deleted scenes, and a potential Director's Commentary have not been revealed. We'd expect that to be released in the coming weeks once pre-orders go live. A three-month exclusive window in theaters should mean The Odyssey adds a little more to its current box office cume, too.
"It never gets any easier, because I make films for audiences and the audience tells me what it likes," Nolan said of making The Odyssey last month. "They finish the film. I don’t have anything to hide behind. I can’t just be like: 'Oh, people don’t get it.' Those aren’t the films I make. What does the audience make of it? Do they turn up? Do they like it if they do turn up?"
"By the way, I don’t think I’d be doing my job right if I wasn’t petrified every time I put a film out, because you’re trying to challenge yourself, you’re trying to take risks," the filmmaker added.
In The Odyssey, Odysseus, King of Ithaca, embarks on a perilous journey to return home after the Trojan War. Crossing the Mediterranean Sea with his fellow soldiers, they soon find themselves battling not only the elements, but an array of deadly obstacles and mythical creatures along the way.
The cast of The Odyssey includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, Benny Safdie, Elliot Page, Jon Bernthal, Mia Goth, John Leguizamo, Himesh Patel, Lupita Nyong'o, Will Yun Lee, Benny Safdie, Bill Irwin, Samantha Morton, Jesse Garcia, Corey Hawkins, Josh Stewart, Jimmy Gonzales, Maurice Compte, and Logan Marshall-Green.
"Matt Damon and Christopher Nolan join forces for a movie that blows every other modern blockbuster out of the water," we wrote in our review. "Breathtakingly epic, powerful, and pure spectacle, The Odyssey is simply magnificent."
Shot across the world using brand-new IMAX film technology, the film brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX film screens for the first time, and it's now playing in theaters.