Matt Damon is a man who knows a thing or two about playing a dude who’s just trying to get home. The Martian, Elysium, Interstellar, Dogma, and even Saving Private Ryan (albeit against his will) all find Damon either trying to find a way back to where he belongs or folk trying to get him back there. In Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey however, Matt Damon is about to undertake the granddaddy of all homeward bound voyages as his Odysseus embarks upon a decade-long journey home to his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) and son Telemachus (Tom Holland) after the fall of Troy. And if the new trailer for Nolan’s latest blockbuster is anything to go by, he’d better hurry up. Check it out below;
Hoo boy — it’s a long old road back to Ithaca, ain’t it? In this latest trailer for The Odyssey — which, in case you needed reminding, took over two million feet of film to shoot — we find Charlize Theron’s nymph Calypso asking our man Odysseus what he remembers of his life. “A wife, a son, we won the war,” recalls Damon’s bearded hero, before a hard cut to him pleading with the gods, “help me go home.” Standing between him and his family though, as we see here, are no shortage of monsters and men. Here we get a glimpse of the dread cyclops in all its troglodytic brutality, the elemental fury of the gods, and R-Pattz’s leering would-be suitor Antinous, whose attempts to weasel his way into Penelope’s affections look to be causing no shortage of discomfort and tension in Ithaca as Odysseus’ family desperately await his return. As we say, Odysseus had better hurry up and get home sharpish — we’ve already seen Robert Pattinson at a wedding once this year, and we definitely don’t need him at another!
Also here for Odysseus’, er, odyssey are a veritable constellation of stars including John Leguizamo as Odysseus’s servant Eumaeus, Jon Bernthal as Greek king of Sparta Menelaus, Zendaya as the goddess Athena, Benny Safdie as Agamemnon, Himesh Patel as Eurylochus, Mia Goth as Melantho, and Jimmy Gonzales as Cepheus. Lupita Nyong’o and Will Yun Lee are also aboard for the journey in as yet undisclosed roles. We’ll find out how they — and Odysseus — fare when Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey hits cinemas in all its shot for IMAX glory on 17 July, 2026. “Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns…”