The new trailer for Sir Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has been released and it offers a glimpse of the all-star cast including Matt Damon as the mythological hero Odysseus, Anne Hathaway as Odysseus’ wife and Tom Holland as his son, Prince Telemachus.
The big screen adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem, which sees Matt Damon finding his way back home from the Trojan War to rescue his wife and son. This is the first film from the director since the Oscar-winning Oppenheimer in 2023. Fans also had a chance to see Matt Damon battling the Cyclops, leading his armies fighting against rough seas and his defiant words saying: “No one can stand between me and home, not even the gods.”
The movie is not in cinema until July 17, but one fan was confident that it’ll be a highly anticipated film, saying: “This movie already won 11 Oscars.”
The trailer then cuts to show a scene that Robert Pattinson, who portrays the cruel and arrogant antagonist Antinous, mocking Tom Holland, who plays Telemachus, for believing his father will return.
“Matt Damon trying to get home is the best genre of film that humans have ever created,” a viewer commented and listed other movies including The Martian, Saving Private Ryan and Jason Bourne series.
However some were not convinced of the choice of words used in the movie, with one mentioning: “‘My dad is coming home’ and ‘Let’s go’ in the most American accents is so jarring.”
Another agreed and said: “‘My dad’ really took me out of the trailer. I feel like that should’ve been ‘my father’.”
In a new interview with Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show, Sir Christopher noted that the Homeric epics inspired many modern blockbusters.
He said: “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. 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.”