Elliot Page Says Reuniting with Christopher Nolan on The Odyssey 15 Years After Inception ‘Meant So Much to Me’

Elliot Page is excited to be reuniting with Christopher Nolan. 

“I loved working with him on Inception,” the actor, 38, said of Nolan during a New York Comic-Con panel on Sunday, Oct. 12. In the 2010 sci-fi film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Page played an architecture student recruited to help construct dreamscapes. 

Getting a call from Nolan, 55, to join the British writer-director’s next film — a star-studded adaptation of The Odyssey — Page was “jazzed and excited,” he told moderator Josh Horowitz.

“I met with Chris and talked about the part and then sat in the room and read the script,” Page said. “And, you know, it was of course a big yes.”

Even though he “can’t say much” about the upcoming project, Page shared that it was a “joy” to work with the director again.

“To come back now, as you can imagine, being more just comfortable in yourself makes these sorts of projects more enjoyable…” Page said. “To get to have a Chris Nolan experience again now — that actually, really just meant so much to me.”

Sitting in an isolated room to read The Odyssey’s script reminded Page of first encountering Inception; both processes were “so secretive,” recalled the Oscar nominee. “I remember it just felt like an engine,” he said. “You get on a ride.”

Page’s appearance alongside James McAvoy at the Javits Center for NYCC was a walk down memory lane for their 2014 superhero hit X-Men: Days of Future Past and many more projects, including Page’s work in Inception, Super and The Umbrella Academy.

Among the actor-producer’s upcoming projects as founder of Pageboy Productions is a TV adaptation of the video game Beyond: Two Souls, in which Page himself provided the motion capture.

McAvoy, 46, also addressed rumors of new actors being cast in future X-Men movies as his character Magneto and Page’s character Kitty Pryde — possibly, as Horowitz floated, Colman Domingo and Bella Ramsey. “I’m excited to see what happens next,” he said of that franchise, now part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “I was a fan before I was an employee and then I’ll be a fan again.”

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The Odyssey, starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal and Page, hits theaters on July 17, 2026.