Posted on 12/22/2025 1:37:40 PM PST by nickcarraway
The first trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s feature take of Homer’s The Odyssey is here, and yet the highly anticipated movie has already sold out 70MM Imax tickets at AMC and Regal cinemas.
Matt Damon is seen here as Odysseus, King of Ithaca, leading his soldiers home after the Trojan War. There’s barely a glimpse of a monster in the trailer, but per the poem which is set around eighth century BCE, he faces Polyphemus the Cyclops, Sirens, the nymph Calypso and the witch goddess Circe in the treacherous oceans. If anything, there’s a lot of ocean and a lot of shipwreck with Odysseus and troops inside the Trojan Horse.
‘The Odyssey’ Is First Film Shot Entirely With Imax Film Cameras: How CEO Rich Gelfond Met Christopher Nolan’s Challenge We get a glimpse here of Tom Holland as Odysseus’ son Telemachus, and Anne Hathaway as Odysseus’ wife Penelope. “Promise me you will come back,” says Penelope.
Also starring, but not seen in the first go-round of the trailer, are Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Mia Goth, Benny Safdie, Jon Bernthal and John Leguizamo.
The epic from the Oscar-winning Oppenheimer filmmaker Nolan was shot using new Imax technology and comes out on July 17, 2026 in theaters.
Check out the trailer above.
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This will be fun...the comments I mean...
Summer blockbusters are a strategy, but I have noticed nothing big is daring to release against Project Hail Mary in March.
Matt Damon getting lost and trying to get home.
Again??
What is that?
Steely Dan’s “Home At Last” loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey
Larry Carlton on guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXfdxlsc9hA
Far more interesting would be a movie of Nikos Kazantzakis’ “The Odyssey, a Modern Sequel”
Wait wasn’t there just an Odyssey about the return home not the journey, and Oddyseus was delusional?
I’d be looking forward to this a lot more if Matt Damon wasn’t in it. He seems miscast.
Hard to beat the 1997 miniseries.
Why would you pick an actor known for playing slow-witted characters — and cast him as the wily Odysseus?
Project Hail Mary Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9g_6zVnGm0
Steely Dan “Home at Last” still the best pop culture retelling of the Odyssey. Every movie ever made of it, except perhaps “The Return”, has sucked worse than Charybdis.
Hahaha...I admit to wishing someone would get this right. I have probably read the book 5-10 times. I watched the last version (”The Return”) and was disappointed.
I hated the interpretation. It made Odysseus seem like a broken, wimpy man, and I never got that from the book.
I hope this one is better.
F.A.G.
F**k Yeah !!!
Hard to beat Homer. :-)
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