The first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has been released.
The acclaimed director recently debuted the latest look at his mythic blockbuster on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The Odyssey is set to follow Odysseus (Matt Damon), king of Ithaca, as he navigates dangerous seas to return home after the Trojan War.
The trailer features Damon as the hero lost at sea, while his wife and son — Penelope (Anne Hathaway) and Telemachus (Tom Holland) — attempt to keep the peace in their kingdom without a king. Robert Pattinson takes on a more sinister role as Antinous, one of Penelope’s many suitors, and it’s clear that he’s going to be one of this adaptation’s big bads. “You’re pining for a daddy you didn’t even know,” he sneers at Telemachus (a line which makes me wonder if Nolan took some liberties with Homer, but I digress). The epic will also be the first narrative film in history to be shot entirely with IMAX cameras.
The film’s stacked cast includes Zendaya as Athena and Charlize Theron as Circe, along with Lupita Nyong’o, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Himesh Patel, Will Yun Lee, Mia Goth, Jimmy Gonzales, Elliot Page, and Jovan Adepo.
The Odyssey releases on July 17 in the United States, but it won’t be the only blockbuster hitting cinemas that day. Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be released concurrently, setting up yet another double-feature ala “Barbenheimer” for Nolan.
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The Odyssey is Christopher Nolan’s mythic blockbuster adapting Homer’s epic. It follows Odysseus, king of Ithaca, as he battles dangerous seas to return home after the Trojan War, while his wife Penelope and son Telemachus try to hold the kingdom together in his absence.
Matt Damon stars as Odysseus, with Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Tom Holland as Telemachus, and Robert Pattinson as the suitor Antinous. The ensemble also includes Zendaya as Athena, Charlize Theron as Circe, plus Lupita Nyong’o, Jon Bernthal, Mia Goth, Elliot Page, and Jovan Adepo.
The Odyssey releases in the United States on July 17, 2026. It shares that date with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, setting up a “Barbenheimer”-style double-feature weekend, this time built around Nolan’s film and the new Spider-Man release.
According to the report, The Odyssey is the first narrative film in history shot entirely with IMAX cameras. The distinction fits Nolan’s long-running preference for large-format photography and signals the scale he is bringing to Homer’s epic on the biggest screens available.
Robert Pattinson plays Antinous, one of the many suitors pursuing Penelope in Odysseus’s absence, positioned as a central antagonist. In the trailer he taunts Telemachus with the line, “You’re pining for a daddy you didn’t even know,” which Rolling Stone flags as an unusually modern turn of phrase.
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