Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' trailer finally sets sail

When you make a blockbuster best Picture-winner like Oppenheimer you can pretty much do whatever you want for your next movie. Christopher Nolan decided to cash in that chip by shooting a true epic in epic fashion. He filmed The Odyssey using all-new IMAX film technology all around the world. The first trailer indicates Nolan’s production will be worth both the effort and Universal Pictures’ money to make The Odyssey a true epic.

Starring Matt Damon as the cursed King of Ithaca, the first The Odyssey trailer starts with Odysseus’ iconic plan to help the Greeks beat the Trojans with his giant wooden horse. (A victory he seems to get for Benny Safdie’s Agamemnon, a new casting piece of information.) From there, we see flashbacks of Damon’s Odysseus telling his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) he might never make it home. We also see her in the present with her son, Telemechas (Tom Holland). But the main focus in The Odyssey trailer is on Odysseus’ brutal fight to make it home, which will definitely include his run-in with a giant cyclops, Polyphemus.

Like for Odysseus, though, this trailer is just one of many steps in a long journey to get to The Odyssey in movie theaters. In fact, the movie is still very. much in production right now. Nolan’s movie—which also stars Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya, and Charlize Theron—won’t wash up on theaters’ shores until next summer. Millennia after Homer first shared his poem, this trailer reminds us that Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey premieres on July 17, 2026.

That might seem like it’s very far away. But it’s nothing compared to how long it took Odysseus to get home, you know??