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

 

The first trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s 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.

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‏Matt 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 in the trailer, but per the poem which is set around eighth 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 and a lot of shipwreck with Odysseus and troops inside the Trojan Horse.

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

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‏“What if I can’t?” responds Odysseus.

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‏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.

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