Matt Damon seen in new trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey
A new full-length trailer has been released for The Odyssey, 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 heading home from the Trojan War to rescue his wife and son.
The film also stars Anne Hathaway as Odysseus's wife Penelope, the Queen of Ithaca, and Tom Holland as his son, Prince Telemachus.
Robert Pattinson portrays the cruel and arrogant antagonist Antinous, who has own eyes fixed firmly on the queen while her husband is still away.
The latest trailer, shared by Universal Studios, has stoked excitement and given fans a closer look at the Greek hero and his perilous and, at times, fantastical journey.
Viewers are also introduced to the seductive 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 cyclops, 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 acclaimed directors, with credits including Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014), The Dark Knight Trilogy, and Dunkirk (2017).
Oppenheimer, his last big effort, won 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 Odyssey.
"Help me go home," viewers hear Odysseus plead, after having first found the King of Ithaca washed up on a far away sea shore.
Penelope is later seen declaring 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 disrepute, chaos and ruin during his 20-year absence.
Holland's partner in real life, Zendaya, plays the goddess Athena in the mythological movie, 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 big 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 Homeric 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 amongst 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 kind 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 Odyssey will release on the same day (17 July) as Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
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