The first trailer for The Odyssey has finally arrived, and it looks like another big winner is in store for filmmaker Christopher Nolan. Based on Homer’s ancient Greek epic, the film stars Matt Damon as Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, who journeys home after the Trojan War. Along with a star-studded cast and breathtaking visuals, Nolan has ventured into perhaps his most ambitious and epic project yet with this fantasy adaptation.
Universal Pictures has released the official trailer for The Odyssey online after playing in theaters over the weekend behind Avatar: Fire and Ash. While a longer prologue sequence was available for select moviegoers, the two-minute trailer should still be enough to excite those anticipating Nolan’s latest event film. As the footage teases, the story follows Odysseus as him and his men try to make their way back home to Ithaca, with plenty of obstacles in their way. From cyclops to mythological gods, Odysseus will have nothing short of a perilous journey up ahead to return to his wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway), and his son, Telemachus (Tom Holland). Watch the trailer below.
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The Odyssey is set to hit theaters on July 19, 2026. The film stars Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Elliot Page, Himesh Patel, Bill Irwin, Samantha Morton, Jesse Garcia, Will Yun Lee, Rafi Gavron, Shiloh Fernandez, Mia Goth, Corey Hawkins, Nick E. Tarabay, Jimmy Gonzales, Maurice Compte, Michael Vlamis, Iddo Goldberg, Josh Stewart, Ryan Hurst, Anthony Molinari, Jovan Adepo, and Logan Marshall-Green.
Christopher Nolan Teases ‘The Odyssey’ as an Action Epic That’s Never “Been Done Before”
“As a filmmaker, you’re looking for gaps in cinematic culture, things that haven’t been done before. And what I saw is that all of this great mythological cinematic work that I had grown up with – Ray Harryhausen movies and other things – I’d never seen that done with the sort of weight and credibility that an A-budget and a big Hollywood, IMAX production could do.
We shot over two million feet of film. It’s pretty primal! I’ve been out on it for the last four months. We got the cast who play the crew of Odysseus’ ship out there on the real waves, in the real places. And yeah, it’s vast and terrifying and wonderful and benevolent, as the conditions shift. We really wanted to capture how hard those journeys would have been for people. And the leap of faith that was being made in an unmapped, uncharted world.”
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