IMAX Just Supercharged Hype for Nolan’s The Odyssey by Spotlighting the 2000s Ultimate Screen Crush
Megan Fox, the Transformers breakout who defined a generation’s big-screen crush, just got an unexpected nod from IMAX on X, reigniting 2000s nostalgia and setting fan buzz ablaze.
IMAX jumped into the discourse with a one-word answer to a very 2000s truth: yes, basically everyone had a crush on Megan Fox. Not exactly a shocking take, but it did remind people why IMAX is suddenly everywhere again: Christopher Nolan has a new epic on deck, and he shot it the way only Nolan would.
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The Megan Fox crush bracket was crowded, and not just among civilians
Fox, who broke out as Mikaela Banes in Transformers, was a poster-on-the-wall era icon. Turns out a bunch of famous folks were in the same boat, and some of them have said the quiet part out loud:
- Machine Gun Kelly: Long before they dated, he had Fox posters plastered in his room. After seeing Transformers, he even got the Decepticons logo inked on his arm, per a GQ profile by Wesley Lowery.
- Tom Felton: The Draco Malfoy actor told Seventeen (via Digital Spy) that Fox kept grabbing his attention with her red carpet appearances.
- Taylor Lautner: In an interview with Metro (via FanBolt), he admitted his longtime crush on Jessica Alba got bumped when he saw Fox.
Meanwhile, Nolan is taking on Homer with The Odyssey
The trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey just dropped, and it looks like the filmmaker is swinging big into myth and fantasy. The story is exactly what the title suggests: a retelling of Homer's epic about Odysseus trying to get home after the Trojan War, a 10-year trek loaded with disasters, monsters, and every bad travel day imaginable for him and his men.
The cast is stacked. The trailer puts Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, and Tom Holland front and center, with Zendaya and Robert Pattinson also in the mix. Nolan, unsurprisingly, is leaning into giant-format filmmaking again. This one is reportedly the first feature shot entirely on IMAX 70 mm film, which is a very Nolan move and a very big-screen flex.
The Odyssey is set to hit theaters on July 17, 2026.
And if all this talk has you feeling nostalgic, Transformers is streaming on Paramount+ in the US.