The Odyssey Trailer Reveals Odysseus' Dog Argos, Charlize Theron's First Look, and Tom Holland Telling a Villainous Robert Pattinson: 'My Dad Is Coming Home'

The Odyssey has a caller trailer, pulling backmost the curtain connected Christopher Nolan’s epic adventure.

The trailer reveals a fig of caller elements antecedently unseen. For example, we get a archetypal look astatine Argos, the loyal canine belonging to the legendary Greek king of Ithaca, Odysseus, and Charlize Theron’s Calypso. Indeed, the trailer begins with Calypso asking Odysseus, played by Matt Damon, what helium remembers aft immoderate naval catastrophe that near him washed up connected shore. He remembers his wife, Anne Hathaway’s Penelope, and his son, Tom Holland’s Telemachus. Odysseus had won the Trojan War, and present each helium wants to bash is spell home.

At this constituent we get a bully look astatine Robert Pattinson’s villainous Antinous, 1 of Penelope's suitors. He’s trying to instrumentality power of Ithaca successful Odysseus’ absence, and Telemachus does not similar that 1 bit. At 1 constituent helium tells Antinous: “my dada is coming home.” “Bringing vengeance?” Yes, fans of Robert Pattinson’s The Batman person already picked up connected that enactment and are having amusive with it.

The trailer reveals much of the fantastic elements we tin expect to see, including a amended look astatine the Cyclops Polyphemus, a conflict with armored giants successful a forest, and a hopeless effort to sail safely past a whirlpool. The trailer ends with Odysseus whispering to his men, “I deliberation it’s asleep.” It turns retired the Cyclops is precise overmuch awake.

Accompanying the merchandise of the trailer is simply a caller acceptable of images, below, revealing archetypal looks astatine Jimmy Gonzales arsenic Cepheus, Himesh Patel arsenic Eurylochus, John Leguizamo arsenic Eumaeus, Mia Goth arsenic Melantho, and Zendaya arsenic Athena.

Last month, Nolan confirmed The Odyssey is shorter than his erstwhile film, Oppenheimer, but insisted “it’s an epic film, arsenic the taxable substance demands.”

2023 biopic Oppenheimer came successful astatine a whopping 3 hours (three hours is the longest Nolan and his squad person been capable to compression onto an IMAX movie projector). The Odyssey volition person a shorter runtime, Nolan told The Associated Press, but we inactive don’t cognize precisely however agelong it is. The Odyssey is described arsenic “a mythic enactment epic,” and was changeable crossed the satellite utilizing marque caller IMAX movie technology.

The Odyssey’s runtime has been a talking constituent due to the fact that of the sheer magnitude of communicative beats successful the root material. Most judge Nolan volition person to permission retired important chunks of Homer’s saga, though his movies often sprout on astatine a accelerated pace.

“It’s an epic film, arsenic the taxable substance demands,” Nolan insisted. “But it is shorter.”

Nolan spoke openly astir the unit helium is nether to deliver, and acknowledged fans privation “a beardown and sincere interpretation.”

“There’s a monolithic magnitude of pressure,” Nolan said. “Anyone taking connected The Odyssey is taking connected the hopes and dreams of radical for epic movies everyplace and that comes with a immense responsibility.”

Nolan added that helium had travel distant from his The Dark Knight Trilogy with an knowing of what radical privation from a movie specified arsenic The Odyssey.

“What I learned from that acquisition is that what radical privation from a movie astir a beloved story, a beloved acceptable of characters, is they privation a beardown and sincere interpretation,” Nolan explained. “They privation to cognize that a filmmaker has gone to the mat for it. I truly tried to marque the champion movie possible.”

New The Odyssey poster.

In December past year, pursuing the merchandise of the debut trailer for The Odyssey, age-old debates astir “historical accuracy” reemerged. Nolan’s movie has faced questions astir its humanities accuracy — oregon inaccuracy, arsenic immoderate person enactment it — ever since it was revealed with a azygous representation of Damon arsenic Odysseus.

Damon himself has discussed however pugnacious it was filming The Odyssey, which helium said had a “profound” effect connected him. “If I look objectively astatine what was required to bash that job, I deliberation it came astatine conscionable the close clip successful my life,” helium revealed. “I deliberation I would've been miserable 20 years agone trying to bash that job. Because you were uncomfortable each day, but I truly enjoyed… like, profoundly enjoyed each infinitesimal of it.”

Damon has spoken astir having to slim down to his precocious schoolhouse value for the role. "I had a beard similar yours for similar a year," helium told Jason and Travis Kelce connected a caller occurrence of their podcast, New Heights. "I was successful truly bully shape. I mislaid a batch of weight. [Nolan] wanted maine thin but strong."

The Odyssey hits theaters connected July 17, 2026.

Image credit: Melinda Sue Gordon.

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