The trailer for Christopher Nolan’s highly-anticipated drama “The Odyssey” was released today.
In the trailer, Matt Damon portrays Odysseus, King of Ithaca, based on the ancient Greek literature attributed to Homer. The film’s hero can be seen leading his soldiers home after the Trojan War in treacherous conditions.
There’s also a brief moment showing Tom Holland as Odysseus’ son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as Odysseus’ wife Penelope. “Promise me you will come back,” Penelope says at one point.
“What if I can’t?” Odysseus replies.
Other actors in the movie include Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Mia Goth, Benny Safdie, Jon Bernthal, and John Leguizamo.
Academy Award-winning director Nolan, known for critically acclaimed projects such as “Oppenheimer” (2023) and “Inception” (2010), spoke about the project during an interview with Empire magazine last month.
“I mean, it truly contains all stories,” Nolan said. “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.”
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He also described what it was like filming at sea for four months. “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,” Nolan told the outlet. “By embracing the physicality of the real world in the making of the film, you do inform the telling of the story in interesting ways…because you’re confronted on a daily basis by the world pushing back at you.”
The saga hits theaters on July 17, 2026.
