‘Shōgun’ Star Cosmo Jarvis Joins Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ With Filming Underway In Morocco

EXCLUSIVE: Shōgun star Cosmo Jarvis is the latest to join Christopher Nolan and Universal’s all-star epic The Odyssey.

Filming is underway in Morocco (before the team heads to Sicily) on the anticipated project, whose cast is led by Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Himesh Patel, Elliott Page, Bill Irwin, Samantha Morton, Jesse Garcia, Will Yun Lee and Corey Hawkins. Jarvis rounds out the cast.

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The film is currently set for a release in Imax on July 17, 2026. Nolan produces with Emma Thomas.

Nolan’s mega-budgeted latest is an adaptation (by him) of Homer’s epic poem composed around the 8^th century BCE. As one of the foundational poetic texts of Western literature, the story follows Odysseus, King of Ithaca on his dangerous journey home after the Trojan war. The ancient Greek epic illustrates a true hero’s journey as the titular figure faces Polyphemus the Cyclops, Sirens, the nymph Calypso and the witch goddess Circe in the treacherous oceans that separate him from his island home and wife Penelope, who unravels a wedding train that she weaves every night in the event that one of the suitors who have taken over her home ends up marrying her should her husband not return.

Universal recently released a first-look image of Damon in the movie.

Jarvis was part of the ensemble to win a SAG award last year for FX’s hit drama Shōgun. He is also known for movies including Lady Macbeth, Calm With Horses and Persuasion. He will next be seen starring opposite Robert De Niro in WB gangster pic The Alto Knights and has the prison thriller Inside opposite Guy Pearce and A24’s Warfare.

The British actor is repped by UTA, The Artists Partnership and Yorn Levine.

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