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If Christopher Nolan adapting Homer wasn’t enough to get your attention, the cast certainly will. Based on the epic poem The Odyssey, the film stars Matt Damon as Odysseus alongside Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, and Charlize Theron, making it the movie of the summer.