EXCLUSIVE: Corey Hawkins ( The Piano Lesson) has been tapped for a role in The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of the epic poem from Homer for Universal Pictures, sources tell Deadline.

Mia Goth has joined the cast of Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" at Universal, TheWrap has learned. The original epic poem, written in the 8th century BC, follows the Greek hero Odysseus as he journeys home after the Trojan War.

The arrival of a wooden ancient trireme in Peloponnese, signals that filming of Christopher Nolan's epic "The Odyssey," begins in Greece.