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Wuthering Heights may have been crossed off many high school summer reading lists, but there’s one English class epic that, quite literally, stands above the rest. And none other than Christopher Nolan is bringing it to the big screen. The Oppenheimer director’s take on Homer’s The Odyssey is set to make a splash this summer, with Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson among the film’s vast ensemble cast.
Though Damon’s BFF Ben Affleck is not among the stars dialing back the clock to the days after the Trojan War, he did weigh in on Damon’s jaw-dropping transformation—at the behest of everyone he ran into while promoting The Accountant 2.
As Affleck admitted on New Heights in April, “I was like, ‘The one time he got in shape!'”
Still, he praised his longtime pal for putting in the work to get into character as Odysseus. “It looks good!” The Town star emphasized. “It ain’t easy when you touch 50. You boys will see!”
But while Damon’s been putting in the work in the gym, there’s plenty of work to be done on that TBR list. Keep reading to see all the books to check out before they become movies and shows…
