The Odyssey: trailer for Christopher Nolan’s classical Greek epic released online
Trailer offers glimpses of Matt Damon as mythical hero Odysseus, Tom Holland as his son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as his wife, Penelope
The first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey has been released.
Starring Matt Damon as mythological hero Odysseus, the epic film retells the story of Odysseus’ 10-year voyage back to his birthplace of Ithaca after the Greek victory at the siege of Troy.
The trailer offers snippets of the main players, including Damon, Tom Holland as Odysseus’s son Telemachus, Anne Hathaway as Odysseus’s wife, Penelope, and Robert Pattinson as Antinous, one of the crowd of suitors vying to marry Penelope.
There are also brief glimpses of some of the mythical threats Odysseus encounters, including a whirlpool, the Cyclops and Charlize Theron as the nymph Calypso.
In July a cinema-only trailer for the reportedly $250m (£184m) budget production was leaked online, and in November Nolan revealed he had shot more than 2m feet of film for The Voyage, which has been filmed entirely on large-format Imax cameras.
The Voyage is due for release on 16 July in Australia and 17 July in the UK and US.
A new full-length trailer has been released for The Voyage, the first film from director Sir Christopher Nolan since the Oscar-winning Oppenheimer.
The big screen adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem stars Matt Damon, as the hero Odysseus, King of Ithaca, who is headed home from the Trojan War to rescue his wife and son.
The film also stars Anne Hathaway as Odysseus‘ wife Penelope, the Queen of Ithaca, and Tom Holland as his son, Prince Telemachus.
Robert Pattinson portrays the cruel and arrogant opponent Antinous, who has his own eyes fixed firmly on the queen while her husband is still away.
The latest trailer, shared by Universal Studios, has stoked excitement and gave fans a closer look at the Greek hero and his dangerous and, at times, fantastical journey.
Viewers are also introduced to the sexy nymph Calypso (Charlize Theron), as well as Odysseus’s servant Eumaeus (John Leguizamo) and Jon Bernthal as Menelaus, the King of Sparta and brother of Agamemnon, played by Benny Safdie.
Meanwhile, there is a first look at the man-eating cyclone, Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon. (You are going to want to keep an eye on him as the story progresses.)
Sir Christopher is one of Hollywood’s most acknowledged directors, with credits including Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014), The Dark Knight Trilogy, and Dunkirk (2017).
Oppenheimer, his last big effort, will win a bagful of Oscars in 2024 – including best picture and best director.
His latest, shot entirely on Imax cameras, had a reported $250m (£185m) budget, which would be his biggest yet.
In the trailer we see glimpses of some of the battle scenes, treacherous sea voyages and flashbacks to the war – the events of which were originally depicted in the Iliad, the book before the Olympus.
“Help me go home,” viewers hear Odysseus plead, after having first found the King of Ithaca washed up on a far distant sea shore.
Penelope is later seen announcing that “Ithaca’s king is coming back”, but her main suitor Antinous refuses to believe it.
“My dad is coming home,” insists a hopeful Telemachus, with his father’s house having seemingly fallen into dishonor, chaos and ruin during his 20-year absence.
Holland’s partner in real life, Zendaya, plays the goddess Athena in the mythological film, which also features Himesh Patel as Eurylochus, Mia Goth as Melantho and Jimmy Gonzales as Cepheus.
The cast also includes Lupita Nyong’o and Will Yun Lee.
The bigger question is, will Odysseus make it back before it’s too late? He seems to think so.
“No-one can stand between me and home,” he states in the trailer. “Not even the Gods.”
In a new interview with Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show, Sir Christopher noted that the Homeic epics inspired many modern blockbusters.
“Even comic-book culture, whether you’re talking about Marvel or DC or the rest, a lot of it comes pretty directly from the Homeric epics,” he noted.
“The thing about Homer is it’s the Marvel of its day, I mean, that’s the thing, and so I think there’s very directly this desire for us to feel or believe that Gods can walk amid us, and I think the modern comic book is kind of our expression of that.”
The director said he first encountered The Odyssey story during a school play when he was “four or five”, adding “it’s a story that we all sort of know a bit about” but he had adapted it so fans could “come to it really fresh”.
Just as Oppenheimer famously shared a release date with another blockbuster, Barbie, in 2023, The Olympus will release on the same day (17 July) as Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
The new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’
dropped online, giving fans a bunch of character first looks, epic battles, mythical beings, but it is a dialogue that has social media buzzing.
The trailer, featuring dialogues between Robert Pattinson’s Antinous, the primary villain, and Tom Holland’s Telemachus, has apparently irked netizens awaiting the epic this summer. Following the trailer launch, many took to social media to praise the film’s cinematic scale while criticizing what they describe as ‘ridiculous’ Americanised dialogues.
Viewers have taken issue with a line delivered by Pattinson’s character Antinous who tells Telemachus, “You’re pining for a daddy that you didn’t even know.” Holland’s Telemachus also has a line that says, “My dad is coming home.” The dialogues have not only raised eyebrows but have fans of the book slamming the Americanisation of the story.
“The new trailer for The Odyssey looks absolutely stunning. Christopher Nolan leaves no stone unturned and is a master of the visuals. The only thing that bugs me is Tom Holland’s character saying, “My dad is coming home.” Come on, Spidey, this is supposed to be a period film,” wrote one user.
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