Odysseus does not die in Homer’s Odyssey. In the epic poem he returns home and is reunited with his wife (Penelope) and son (Telemachus). In later accounts, Odysseus is killed by Telegonus, his son by the sorceress Circe. Telegonus arrives in Ithaca searching for his father, who had left Circe’s island, Aeaea. He encounters Odysseus and, failing to recognize him, accidentally kills him with a spear tipped with the point of a stingray, thus fulfilling the prophecy in the Odyssey that death would come to Odysseus “from the sea.” Telegonus later marries Penelope.
In Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026), Odysseus returns to Penelope and Telemachus. Although Odysseus is seriously injured while battling Penelope’s suitors and she briefly fears that he will die, he survives. Nolan then invented a new ending, in which Telemachus is crowned king, and Odysseus and Penelope sail away.