Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey': New Trailer Unleashes Mythical Footage, Director Calls Homer 'Original Marvel!'

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Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey': New Trailer Unleashes Mythical Footage, Director Calls Homer 'Original Marvel!'

Christopher Nolan's hotly-anticipated epic The Odyssey released a new trailer on Monday night and audiences are certainly in for a cinematic feast judging by the latest clip.

The Universal Pictures release doesn’t hit theaters until July 17, but the hype is building and will only increase after the latest trailer.

This trailer will gives us closer look at Greek hero Odysseus’ long, torturous and fantastical trip home from the Trojan War, back to Kingdom of Ithaca to save his wife and son.

In the clip we see glimpses of the key players including Matt Damon in the lead role, Odysseus’s son Telemachus (Tom Holland), Odysseus’s wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway), the nymph Calypso (Charlize Theron).

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

And this is Penelope’s snivelling suitor Antinous (Robert Pattinson) who is seeking to marry the queen and become the ruler of Ithaca.

The trailer also features Odysseus’s servant Eumaeus (John Leguizamo) and Jon Bernthal as Menelaus, the Greek king of Sparta and Agamemnon’s brother.

The main cast also includes Zendaya as the goddess Athena, Benny Safdie as Agamemnon, Himesh Patel as Eurylochus, Mia Goth as Melantho, Jimmy Gonzales as Cepheus and Lupita Nyong’o and Will Yun Lee in an unspecified roles.

We also have our first proper look at the not-so mythical Cyclops, and the film is an adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic the Odyssey, and includes the sirens and other elements of mythology.

Nolan shot the film entirely on Imax cameras, and the battle scenes in the trailer, which look quite incredible are sure to be awe-inspiring once viewed in theaters on the correct large screen format.

Source: Yahoo News

Nolan’s last film, “Oppenheimer,” was released to similar levels of hype on July 21, 2023.

The “Inception” filmmaker recently told the Associated Press that, although “The Odyssey” is still “an epic film,” its run time is clocking in below his biopic about the father of the atomic bomb, which ran for three hours.

He also told AP that there is a “massive amount of pressure” in adapting such a well-known story like “The Odyssey,” but assured the outlet that he “really tried to make the best film possible.”

Though Nolan is surefire thing at the box office given his stellar track record, The Odyssey is still something of a gamble given the source material may not be familiar to general audiences.

The budget of the film is reported to be $250 million, making it the Oscar-winning director’s most expensive film of his career.

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