First trailer for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ leaks online
The teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s huge undertaking, The Odyssey, has been released online, after it was first aired before official cinematic screenings of Jurassic World: Rebirth.
Nolan, the esteemed director of classic movies such as Inception and Interstellar, prefers his trailers as pieces of cinematic experience. Because of this, no online release date for the teaser trailer was released. However, Nolan is expected to announce a release date soon, given that the trailer has leaked only a day after it debuted in cinemas.
In the leaked trailer, a dark, brooding atmosphere appears to permeate the slow, considered scenes.
Though filming for The Odyssey continues into the end of 2025, the short trailer depicts several completed scenes overdubbed with the narrator sharing the lines, “Darkness. Zeus’s law smashed to pieces. I’m without a king since my master died. He knew it was an unwinnable war. And then, somehow, he won it.”
The film will not be released until July 2026, though fans can already see Tom Holland in the role of Odysseus’s son Telemachus in the short trailer, conversing with an unknown character, played by Jon Bernthal. “I have to find out what happened to my father. When did you last see him?” Holland’s character begs.
Bertnthal replies ominously, “Who has a story about Odysseus? You? You have a story? Some say he’s rich. Some say he’s poor. Some said he perished. Some said he’s imprisoned.”
The clip then cuts to footage of a man floating on a piece of driftwood in the middle of the sea. This appears to be the eponymous Odysseus, played by acting royalty Matt Damon. The trailer ends with a promise of more to come on July 17th, 2026.
Though the clip provides insight into only one conversation, the cast for the epic is ginormous. It consists of the likes of Lupita Nyong’o, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Mia Goth, John Leguizamo, Benny Safdie and Elliot Page.
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