The First Trailer for Nolan’s The Odyssey Officially Released
According to CinemaDrame News Agency, the first trailer for the epic film The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan, has been officially released. While Universal has screened this trailer, along with a short teaser and a six-minute clip, in cinemas over recent months, this marks the first time the studio has formally unveiled the trailer on social media.
The Odyssey follows Odysseus, played by Matt Damon, and his ten-year journey from Troy to Ithaca as he attempts to return home after the Trojan War. The cast includes Zendaya as Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war and Odysseus’s guide; Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Odysseus’s wife; Mia Goth as Melantho, Penelope’s unfaithful maidservant; Tom Holland as Telemachus, the son of Odysseus; Charlize Theron as Circe (or Kirke), the sorceress goddess who traps Odysseus and his crew on an island; Benny Safdie as Agamemnon, the Greek commander in the Trojan War; Lupita Nyong’o as Clytemnestra, Agamemnon’s wife; Robert Pattinson as Antinous, one of the many men seeking Penelope’s hand; Jon Bernthal as Eurylochus, the second-in-command of Odysseus’s ship; John Leguizamo as Eumaeus, Odysseus’s swineherd; and Samantha Morton as Anticlea, the Queen of Ithaca. Himesh Patel, Elliot Page, Bill Irwin, Jesse Garcia, Ryan Hurst, and Will Yun Lee also star in the film.
Nolan’s latest project, reportedly produced with an unofficial budget of $250 million, is the first film in history to be shot entirely using IMAX cameras. Hoyte van Hoytema, who previously collaborated with Nolan on Dunkirk, Tenet, and Oppenheimer, serves as the film’s cinematographer.
Nolan previously told Empire that the total length of IMAX film used for The Odyssey reaches 600 kilometers:
“As a filmmaker, you’re always looking for breakthroughs in cinematic culture—things that haven’t been done before. What I see are all these great, mythic cinematic works I grew up with—Ray Harryhausen films (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad) and others—and I’ve never seen films like that made with the weight and credibility that large-scale, big-budget Hollywood and IMAX projects can bring.”
In another part of the interview, Matt Damon described The Odyssey as a summer movie:
“It’s exactly what you want from a summer film. It has to be hugely entertaining and feel mythic.”
The Odyssey is scheduled for release on July 17, 2026.
