The Odyssey | Official Trailer (Universal Pictures) – HD
In cinemas 17 7 26
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Cast: Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya, Charlize Theron
Written and Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Produced by: Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
Executive Producer: Thomas Hayslip
Christopher Nolan’s next film, The Odyssey, is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX® film technology. The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX® film screens for the first time and opens in cinemas everywhere on July 17, 2026.
The Odyssey stars Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson and Lupita Nyong’o, with Zendaya and Charlize Theron.
The Odyssey is produced by Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan for their company, Syncopy. The executive producer is Thomas Hayslip.
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We don't need Imax cameras or 8k resolution, we want to see greeks, mycenaeans and a good plot, we don't want another woke movie with DEI and all that sh*t, even I saw asians inside the horse, I wondering how many greeks are recruited to make that movie, ancient greeks didn't wear pants. Poor casting and stop the cultural appropriation. No more DEI agenda in the movies. Sorry Nolan you lost it this time.
Bad trailer. Horrible casting. Puff.
Watching the trailer, after rewatching movie troy(2004)
That helmet is not just ugly, it is stupid as well
Lady in the end sounds like a transgender man
Looks fantastic. I love history but not everything has to strive for accuracy – especially when it’s pure mythology we’re dealing with. I really can’t see the problem, this isn’t a history documentary. Personally, I love the aesthetic and hope people can just resist their need to be cynical in the modern day – just once – and let themselves enjoy it. What a great time to be alive with all the old classics at our fingertips, the hammy epicness of the early 2000s offerings, and now some Nolan grit!
looking at the actors alone…PASS!
Only makes sense if they re-release Troy and have it as a double feature before this.
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0:56. That mistake with the sword….
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Matt Damon isn't the right actor for this movie. Cillian Murphy, Christian Bale, or Mads Mikkelsen would have been convincing. Sean Bean, unfortunately, is too old to play the part.
I am excited for this movie, and curious to see which parts of the long, long poem will make it onto the screen. My main concern is that the cast is very stacked with stars whose fame might get in the way of our immersing ourselves in the movie. Will we be able to see Odysseus and not just Matt Damon? But I'm more than happy to give this one a shot in the cinema.
Nolan don't disappoint me🤞
From director Christopher Nolan
Me: SOLD
I’m not sold on the costumes, they look like from a galaxy far far away!!
Batman: Odyssey
To critics claiming Nolan's Odyssey has historically inaccurate costumes: you are missing the point entirely, while Nolan understands it perfectly.
Your argument hinges on a modern, academic reconstruction of what the real Bronze Age "looked like." But Nolan is not adapting archaeological reports; he is channeling the myth as the Greeks themselves imagined it.
For evidence, one need only look at the ancient visual tradition:
On the famous "Blinding of Polyphemus" amphora from Eleusis (c. 670 BCE), Odysseus and his men are depicted naked. No Mycenaean armor in sight.
In countless other depictions, from black-figure pottery to classical sculpture, Odysseus is most often shown in a simple chiton or himation, or partially nude—the universal Greek artistic shorthand for a heroic or narrative figure.
When he is shown with gear, it is the panoply of the contemporary Classical hoplite, not a historical Mycenaean warrior. The ancients consistently mythologized and contemporized their heroes.
Nolan is doing precisely what the ancient vase painters did: he is visualizing the archetypal essence of the myth, not staging a historical reenactment. He is dressing his Odysseus in the "armor" of a timeless, rugged survivor—a costume that speaks directly to the hero's core themes of endurance, loss, and stripped-down humanity.
As for the comparison to Batman—what you dismiss as a lazy modern trope, I see as validation of this archetypal continuity. Batman existed in Mesoamerican mythology, and his name was Camazotz: the bat-god, deity of night, sacrifice, and caves. This is not a coincidence; it is the recurrence of an archetype. The human imagination, from the jungles of Central America to the sketches of Leonardo da Vinci to the pages of Bob Kane, has repeatedly conjured the form of the armored, nocturnal, singular vigilante. It represents a specific kind of power that transcends any one era's material culture. To see Nolan’s design and cry "Batman!" is to accidentally stumble upon the very mythic resonance you claim is missing.
To insist on strict Bronze Age accuracy is to commit a fundamental category error. It elevates a modern, pedantic notion of historical "correctness" over the living, evolving, and intentionally anachronistic tradition of the myth itself. The ancients were not documentary filmmakers; they were storytellers. And in that grand tradition, Nolan appears to be following their lead, not yours.
In short: before you criticize a filmmaker for not visiting a museum, perhaps you should take a longer look at the vases inside one.
First ad ive ever actually clicked on💀 at first i thought it might be something about the trojans specifically- but was pleasantly surprised to see it was about odysseus. My excitement level upon that realization📈
Matt as Oddyseus is a Joke.
Lazy really nothing new, very old story made to look realistic to us from 2026 in reality there’s a different story!
Where they were in the sea that’s my town in Scotland the boat was coming in and out the harbour daily what a sight
I think it’s pretty lame how it’s all sold out for immax
Where's the 4k trailer?
Can’t wait for the slaughter in Ithaca.