‘The Odyssey’ Trailer Drops: Matt Damon Battles To Return Home In Christopher Nolan Epic

The first trailer for Christopher Nolan feature take of Homer’s The Odyssey is here, and yet the highly anticipated movie has already sold out 70MM Imax tickets at AMC and Regal cinemas.

Damon is seen here as Odysseus, King of Ithaca, leading his soldiers home after the Trojan war. There’s barely a glimpse of a monster here in the trailer, but per the poem which is set around 8th century BCE, he faces Polyphemus the Cyclops, Sirens, the nymph Calypso and the witch goddess Circe in the treacherous oceans. If anything, there’s a lot of ocean in this AM’s trailer and a lot of shipwreck with Odysseus and troops inside the Trojan Horse.

We get a glimpse here of Holland as Odysseus’ son Telemachus, and Anne Hathaway as Odysseus’ wife Penelope. “Promise me you will come back,” says Penelope.

“What if I can’t?” responds Odysseus.

Also starring, but not seen in the first go-round of the trailer, are Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Mia Goth, Benny Safdie, Jon Bernthal and John Leguizamo.

The epic from the Oscar winning Oppenheimer filmmaker was shot using new Imax technology and comes out on July 17, 2026 in theaters.