Christopher Nolan drops new trailer for The Odyssey
Universal released a new trailer and poster for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, which opens in theaters July 17, 2026. The trailer presents Nolan's retelling of the Homeric epic as a massive, mythic adventure and highlights leading performances from Matt Damon and Tom Holland. Nolan's high-profile summer release makes The Odyssey a major studio tentpole and one of the few modern, large-scale film adaptations of Homeric material, so it matters for audiences tracking blockbuster filmmaking and Nolan's next move.
I just watched the Odyssey trailer and I am so glad they nailed Odysseus’ Boston accent.
Nikita Gill86British actor Tom Holland playing an American Telemachus saying “My dad is coming home” is SENDING ME.
Judge Holden Caulfield55Do you like olives? Well I just blinded Polyphemus. How do you like them olives?
Samuel ✡️ 🗽23I’m really sad that this movie isn’t just a sequel to Troy (2004). Sean Bean should be Odysseus, if only because it’s the one role he was ever cast in where he actually survived to the end of the movie.
Nothing Edifying14I need to hear Odysseus say, “Wicked pissah!” I don’t even know if Bostonians still say that, but this is set in Ancient Times, so…
Chris Henry11Polyphemus: What’s your name? Odysseus: Nobahdy
Ooga-Chaka10For me, there is nothing that breaks immersion more. I lost my fucking mind when Bill Burr showed up in The Mandalorian. 🥴
ElChompiras8"Pahk the trireme by Troy yahd"
Derwen8Did they give him frosted tips, too? Verisimilitude is important; I hope they get the hair right.
Cat Meng5how ya like them figs?!?
Zippy la tête d'épingle5Pahk ya harse on Troy's front yahd.
SciCommic5Still the best version, IMO
my12qc4The director knows fuck all about boats and sailing, that's for sure. Let's just row out of a storm! I loved the bit where they are running and you can tell they are so desperate to steady their helmets with their hands but they were ordered not to.
Ed Macdonald4Notice there's no dialogue until the very end? I howled.
ericjanssen.bsky.social4Boston is the home of the gods, after all. 😎
Tell Your Cat I Said "psspsspss"3"We gonna go find that golden fleece - it's gonna be wicked haad, but we'll get there."
ianlineham.bsky.social2"Yondah is the castle of my fuddah"
Azulitasola2Pahk the ship in Havahd Yahd.
Gern Blandsten 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇺🇦2Hey Athenah! Where'd you pahk tha cah? Don't you remembah? I pahkt it at ya muthahs.
raycearcher.bsky.social2These Trojans are wicked screwed! TROY SUCKS!
Bill Ahearn2Cyclops, you aah wicked pissah
S. Derrera2This made me laugh so hard!
Wrygrin2"Much have I suffehed, labored long and wicked hahd by now in tha waves and wahs."
Timothy Loughran2“How ya like them pomegranates!”
Hallmarc2Whaaht? I was cot between Scyllaaaah and Chaaahrybdis...
Yesfan1 🏴🏴🐸2You'd prefer Ulysses Boston accent?
geeves speezerton2“whaddawe jason and the friggin’ ah-go-nawts here”
Tommy Edwin2When I heard Matt Damon and Odysseus mentioned in the same breath automatic cringe alarm went off. 🤓😆 #StayInYourLane
The visuals of Christopher Nolan's ‘THE ODYSSEY’ In theaters on July 17.
Mookey34A whole spectrum of colors and Nolan only ever uses two of them.
Ellie12Do people online just blip into existence to be angry about anything
Olly3looks so drab for its setting though. i’d expect this from like a norse epic or something
David Lovejoy3well, it's blue and orange so it's definitely a movie
Kaszel Pach2The looks of a medium-budget Netlix production
mogadon2yay, nolan has elevated blandness to an art form!
I was completely on board with "nah, make a big dumb Odyssey movie, it'll be fun" but I saw the trailer and thought, no, that's too dumb
Ian Boudreau69One thing is for sure, Robert Pattinson will be having a great time with it and that may be a saving grace
Dead Pope Hammer [sic]🧌11"give me the dumbest Odyssey movie you have" ... 'no, that's too dumb"
Kathrin6Seeing Holland and Pattinson in 'period'* costume in a 'period'* hall talk about "Daddy" just broke something in me. (*don't get me started)
Still the best adaptation of The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan could never
Bigo'lpigeon(ICE sucks doodoo piss)2My mom grew up watching this. Along with Albator, Olive & Tom, Dragon Ball etc. It was a BOOM over here in France u have no idea
Dame Sabriel Mastin2Yesssss! I've only ever gotten about halfway through (cartoon and the book now that I think about it). The theme song is fucking banger!
imo trailer for the new christopher nolan movie based on the odyssey looks like a trailer for a blockbuster version of the odyssey made by christopher nolan.
elias isquith39i dunno. after oppenheimer i’m inclined to trust nolan and let him cook. the fact that the movie seems to suggest odysseus feels guilty about how they won the war isn’t in the text but it’s a potentially fruitful and interesting choice imo especially from a filmmaker obsessed with WWII
Yokem35Nolan doesn't have anything on the Coen Brothers though. This will forever be the canonical adaptation:
Laura Clawson3The trailer looked good but then I remembered that since it's Christopher Nolan it's going to be too long for me to be willing to sit through.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy2Modernize the language whatever, of course, but as others have noted, Telemachus talking about his "Dad" (and presumably Penelopia "Mom") will, on its own, make this unwatchable.
