The Odyssey TV Trailer Reveals Travis Scott Speaking Role, Jon Bernthal, and More Tom Holland

A TV spot for The Odyssey aired during the New England Patriots vs Denver Broncos AFC Championship crippled implicit the weekend, and the abbreviated trailer revealed Travis Scott’s speaking relation and a caller look astatine Tom Holland arsenic Telemachus, Odysseus' son.

The Odyssey, written and directed by Christopher 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's debut trailer, released past month, featured Matt Damon's Odysseus, the legendary Greek king of Ithaca, 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.

This caller promo, which soon emerged connected YouTube and societal media platforms aft it was broadcast, starts with Telemachus asking questions astir his absent begetter amid a gathering of soldiers. Menelaus, the Greek king of Sparta and Agamemnon's member played by Punisher histrion Jon Bernthal, calls for a communicative of Odysseus' adventures. We past spot Scott archer the communicative of Odysseus infiltrating the metropolis of Troy utilizing the legendary Trojan Horse. Menelaus looks astatine Telemachus arsenic Scott’s quality stands connected a array to recount the communicative successful melodramatic fashion.

“A man,” Scott says. “A trick. A instrumentality to interruption the walls of Troy. It's burning, screaming to the ground.”

“Let’s spell home,” Matt Damon’s Odysseus declares aft victory.

We saw a glimpse astatine the Troy communicative successful the debut trailer (which sparked a statement astir humanities accuracy). Trojan soldiers resistance the 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. Other scenes teased successful the debut trailer see the Cyclops, who enters a cave filled with soldiers, and the undead rising from the crushed itself.

It's worthy noting that The Odyssey isn't the archetypal clip Scott and Nolan person worked together. The American rapper and singer-songwriter recorded The Plan for the sountrack to Nolan's time-bending 2020 movie, Tenet.

Last week, Damon discussed however pugnacious it was filming The Odyssey, which helium said had a “profound” effect connected him. In an interrogation with Netflix to beforehand caller movie The Rip, Damon said helium was inactive “unpacking” the acquisition of filming The Odyssey, but admitted “it did person a profound effect connected me.”

“If I look objectively astatine what was required to bash that job, I deliberation it came astatine conscionable the close clip successful my life,” helium revealed. “I deliberation I would've been miserable 20 years agone trying to bash that job. Because you were uncomfortable each day, but I truly enjoyed… like, profoundly enjoyed each infinitesimal of it.”

Earlier this month, Damon revealed helium slimmed down to his precocious schoolhouse value for the role. "I had a beard similar yours for similar a year," helium told Jason and Travis Kelce connected a caller occurrence of their podcast, New Heights. "I was successful truly bully shape. I mislaid a batch of weight. [Nolan] wanted maine thin but strong."

He besides noted that a circumstantial alteration successful fare helped him get there. "Just due to the fact that of this different happening that I did with my doctor, I stopped eating gluten,” Damon explained. “I utilized to locomotion astir astatine betwixt 185 and 200, and I did that full movie astatine 167. And I haven't been that airy since precocious school. So it was a batch of grooming and a truly strict diet."

The Ocean’s Eleven prima besides told the hosts however grooming truthful intensely for the relation felt similar playing a play of nonrecreational sports. "I ideate what that feels similar for you guys, wherever you're preparing," Damon said to the Kelces. "It's conscionable portion of your day, it's portion of your job, and you get truly routinized astir it and kinda physique your time astir each that stuff."

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 past 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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