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Matt Damon tries to return home against all odds in 'The Odyssey'

  • On Monday, Universal released the first teaser for The Odyssey, starring Matt Damon as Odysseus and set for theatrical release on July 17, 2026.
  • Christopher Nolan framed the project as a personal reimagining earlier this year, saying he wrote and produced it with Emma Thomas to fill gaps in cinematic culture using Homer’s epic.
  • A six‑minute clip was screened before IMAX 70‑millimeter showings of Sinners and One Battle After Another, and tickets for the first IMAX 70mm screenings went on sale one year before release.
  • At CinemaCon, Universal executive Jim Orr called The Odyssey a visionary masterpiece, marking Christopher Nolan's first film since his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer, which won seven Oscars.
  • The trailer shows Matt Damon emerging from the Trojan Horse amid shipwreck imagery, the cast includes Tom Holland as Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as Penelope, and Homer's poem dates to around the 8th century B.C.E.
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“After years of war, no one could stand between my men and my home. Not even I,” says Odysseus (Matt Damon) in the trailer of La Odyssey, which was released on Monday, December 22. A first approach to Homer’s poem under the reading of Christopher Nolan, a director whose hand does not tremble when it comes to great epic shows. The advance offers a first look at the Trojan War, the island ruled by the hero and the cave of the cyclops Polyphemus, P…

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Christopher Nolan’s fans have once again remained open-mouthed, following the release of the first trailer in La odyssey. Since the announcement of the film’s production at the end of 2024, the British filmmaker’s project has been news week after week. Due, among other things, to the selection of a star-packed casting, the leaked images and the spectacular ambition to be the first film of history shot entirely with 70 mm IMAX cameras. Now, the b…

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Krem2 News broke the news in Spokane, United States on Monday, December 22, 2025.
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