Wait… Christopher Nolan just dropped the FIRST trailer for THE ODYSSEY and it’s already breaking the internet… but what they showed in theaters is ONLY 70 seconds… 😱
Matt Damon washed up half-dead on a raft. Tom Holland staring at something that makes his blood run cold. A Trojan Horse that looks like it came straight out of hell. And ZERO dialogue—just thunderous sound and shots that will haunt you for days.
This isn’t just a movie. This is Nolan going full god-mode on ancient Greece… and the full thing doesn’t hit until July 2026.
Is this the greatest epic ever filmed… or did Nolan finally bite off more than even HE can chew?
You tell me after you watch this 👇🔥
The first footage from Christopher Nolan’s hotly anticipated adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic The Odyssey has landed — but good luck seeing it in pristine quality unless you’re sitting in a theater.
A 70-second teaser trailer debuted exclusively in front of Universal’s Jurassic World Rebirth this summer, and within hours shaky phone recordings were flooding social media before being swiftly yanked down by the studio. As of November 2025, Universal still hasn’t released an official online version, keeping with Nolan’s tradition of forcing audiences back into seats for the “true” cinematic experience.
The brief glimpse shows a grim, almost apocalyptic take on the Trojan War aftermath: crashing waves, burning ships, Matt Damon’s bearded Odysseus clinging to driftwood like a man who’s stared into the abyss, and Tom Holland as a wide-eyed Telemachus looking like he’s just uncovered something that can’t be unseen. No sweeping orchestral score yet — just low, rumbling sound design and quick cuts to the infamous Trojan Horse looming in smoke.
Sources close to the production tell us the teaser was deliberately sparse. “Chris didn’t want to give away the store,” one insider said. “He’s treating this like sacred text — you get a taste, then you wait.”
Shot entirely on new-generation IMAX film cameras — a first for any major motion picture — the movie wrapped principal photography in August after seven grueling months across Morocco, Greece, Italy, Iceland, Scotland, and the open Atlantic. Nolan reportedly burned through nearly 400 miles of film stock, including four straight months at sea that left cast and crew battered by storms and seasickness.
The budget sits north of $250 million, making it Nolan’s most expensive gamble yet. Universal is betting big that audiences will show up in droves for what the studio calls “a mythic action epic” when it finally storms theaters on July 17, 2026.
The stacked ensemble has only added fuel to the fire. Matt Damon leads as the cunning king of Ithaca, reuniting with Nolan after Interstellar and Oppenheimer. Tom Holland plays his son Telemachus, Anne Hathaway is Penelope, and the supporting roster reads like an Oscars red carpet: Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal (rumored as a brutal Agamemnon), Mia Goth, Benny Safdie, Elliot Page, Himesh Patel, and more.
Early reactions to the leaked footage are split down the middle. Some are calling it “Gladiator on steroids meets Interstellar’s black hole,” while others complain the muted color palette looks “drained” and worry Nolan’s cerebral style might clash with Greek mythology’s wilder excesses — Cyclops, Sirens, six-headed monsters, and all.
Nolan himself has remained coy, telling Empire magazine he was drawn to Odysseus because “he’s complicated — an amazing strategist, a very wily person.” The director has long flirted with Homer’s world; he was once attached to Wolfgang Petersen’s 2004 Troy before bailing to make Batman Begins instead.
Composer Ludwig Göransson (Oppenheimer, Tenet) is back for the score, and editor Jennifer Lame is cutting what insiders describe as a non-linear beast that jumps between Ithaca, the open sea, and Odysseus’s increasingly nightmarish flashbacks.
With a full trailer reportedly set to drop in December ahead of James Cameron’s next Avatar installment, the hype train is only picking up speed. Nolan’s last film, Oppenheimer, grossed almost $1 billion and swept the Oscars. If anyone can turn a 2,800-year-old poem into the next summer event, it’s him.
But turning gods, monsters, and a 10-year cursed voyage into a coherent blockbuster? Even for Christopher Nolan, that’s a journey worthy of Odysseus himself.
The Odyssey opens exclusively in theaters — and only in theaters — July 17, 2026.