Anne Hathaway and Zendaya are latest to join Christopher Nolan’s new film

Anne Hathaway and Zendaya are set to star in Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated next movie.

According to Deadline, the two actors will join the previously announced cast of Matt Damon and Tom Holland. Details of the project have been kept under wraps but sources tell the Hollywood Reporter that it will not be set in the present day.

Nolan’s follow-up to Oppenheimer has been dated for 17 July 2026 with an Imax release. The movie is expected to start shooting in 2025.

It will mark an on-screen reunion for off-screen partners Zendaya and Holland. The pair are also expected to return to their roles in the fourth Spider-Man movie, which is currently dated for a week after Nolan’s film.

“All I can say is that I’m incredibly excited,” Holland said about being part of Nolan’s next project. “And obviously honored, but that’s all I can say because, to be honest, that’s all I know.” He said receiving the phone call was “reminiscent of getting the call about Spider-Man 10 years ago”.

Hathaway has previously worked with Nolan in both Interstellar and The Dark Knight Rises. “A lot of people wouldn’t give me roles because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become online,” Hathaway said in a recent Vanity Fair interview. “I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who did not care about that and gave me one of the most beautiful roles I’ve had in one of the best films [Interstellar] that I’ve been a part of.”

Hathaway was recently seen in romantic comedy The Idea of You and period thriller Mothers’ Instinct. She will next appear alongside Michaela Coel in pop-star drama Mother Mary and next summer’s sci-fi thriller Flowervale Street with Ewan McGregor.

Zendaya was recently seen in Luca Guadagnino’s hit tennis drama Challengers and fantasy sequel Dune: Part Two. She is currently filming The Drama with Robert Pattinson for Dream Scenario director Kristoffer Borgli.

Nolan is coming off the commercial and critical hit Oppenheimer, the historical biopic that became a blockbuster in summer 2023 making $976m worldwide and later winning the Oscar for best picture.

When asked about replicating such success for his next project, Nolan said: “I think you can’t worry too much about the relationship of one film to the next. I get bored very quickly, I like to keep working. It’s exciting to think about what’s next.”