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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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Ok I watched the trailer. No, that’s not good as the 1997 film.
While the ancient Greeks had their dark side, not all about brilliant sunlight and sun-baked lands — still, that trailer must have been filmed in Hades. Ugh!!
Excellent!
Whenever I see it I can’t help but hear Matt Damon’s name sounded in the voice used in “Team America”, sort of like the slowest kid in the class on quaaludes. Odysseus was cleverest of the Greek leaders. Talk about miscasting!
I have read the Project Hail Mary book from Andy Weir (The Martian) . . . twice. Superb book. Better than The Martian and potato growing on Mars.
Ryan Gosling is THE MAN. He smells Oscar.
Scylla's design was the thing that nightmares are made of.
Oh and here’s a spoiler. It’s why Gosling took the ball to run with it.
Extinction looms. He’s a coward. He refused to go on the suicide mission to try to stop it.
Not so much spoilage there to ruin it.
“The Return” had only come out a couple of years ago. That one focuses on the end of The Odyssey, when Odysseus returns home and takes care of business. I heard good things about it.
Last year, “The Return” with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche was released. It covered the last chapters of the Odysseus. It was low budget (beyond the leading cast) and I found it slight and disappointing.
I look forward to this one. I’ve read the Odyssey three or four times in different editions.
It’s a Greek story, so of course half the cast has to be...BLACK?
Matt Damon has been a big no for me ever since his character in Good Will Hunting promoted Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. Damon and Affleck wrote the script for that movie.
How did he get so famous? He is a crap actor. The only thing I liked him in was Team America...
Armond Assante he is not.
Jason Bourne hoes Greek, yeah right.
How did he get so famous? He is a crap actor. The only thing I liked him in was Team America...
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He did well in “Ford v. Ferrari.” But his best role was a cameo in Ragnarok.
And some legendary hangovers!
My 4th grade teacher read to our class for 30 minutes every morning. Yup, she read this. It was exciting and I recall much of the action in it.
The 1997 version was great. I have the DVD and a digital copy. I’ve read the book multiple times. Matt Damon is just wrong.
If he could grow a bushy beard he’d be OK.
@sunkenciv I tagged godsgravesglyphs for this.
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