Debut Trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey Reveals First Look at Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, and More

The debut trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has revealed a archetypal look astatine characters played by Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, and Matt Damon.

The Odyssey, written and directed by Nolan and owed retired July 17, 2026, is based connected Homer’s saga, and is described arsenic “a mythic enactment epic,” changeable crossed the satellite utilizing marque caller IMAX movie technology. The Odyssey stars Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson and Lupita Nyong’o, with Zendaya and Charlize Theron.

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The trailer begins astatine the burial tract of scores of soldiers. Matt Damon's Odysseus, the legendary Greek king of Ithaca, narrates, saying that aft years of war, thing tin basal betwixt his men and home. We past spot Spider-Man prima Tom Holland arsenic Telemachus, Odysseus's lad who is determined to find his father. A acrophobic Anne Hathaway, arsenic Penelope, the woman of Odysseus, looks on.

We past get possibly the astir iconic changeable of the movie, arsenic Trojan soldiers resistance the celebrated Trojan Horse from the sea. Inside, Damon and his soldiers hide, silently. One soldier, chopped by a sword that pierces the horse, is forced to enactment soundless by his hopeless comrades.

We past get a changeable of the "mythic" portion of The Odyssey with a little look astatine what appears to beryllium a elephantine humanoid (the Cyclops, perhaps?), who enters a cave filled with soldiers. Later, the undead look to emergence from the crushed itself. There's a classical sail during a tempest scene, wherever a hapless crewmate is washed overboard. The trailer ends with Penelope asking Odysseus to committedness helium volition return. Odysseus responds: "what if I can't?"

Damon precocious recalled an incidental during filming wherever Holland personally called the caput of Sony Pictures to put for 1 of the company's pristine 70mm prints of the classical movie Lawrence of Arabia to beryllium shown to The Odyssey's cast. "Tom Holland, due to the fact that he’s Spider-Man and he’s everybody’s favourite astatine that studio, called [Sony Pictures brag Tom] Rothman and helium arranged for america to surface it connected a Sunday, the afloat 4 hours," Damon said.

The Odyssey is Nolan's 13th film, aft antecedently helming Following, Memento, Insomnia, The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Dunkirk, Tenet, and Oppenheimer. Such is the anticipation for the movie, that a constricted fig of The Odyssey tickets went connected merchantability during the summertime — a twelvemonth successful beforehand of the movie opening.

While Nolan has agelong been celebrated arsenic 1 of the large directors of modern cinema, The Odyssey is expected to execute peculiarly powerfully pursuing the breakout occurrence of Oppenheimer, the Cillian Murphy-led biopic that fuelled 1 fractional of the Barbenheimer phenomenon. Oppenheimer earned a staggering $975 cardinal during its theatrical run, and walked distant with Best Picture astatine the Oscars.

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