The first trailer for Christopher Nolan\u2019s adaptation of Homer\u2019s The Odyssey has been released.<\/p>\n
Starring Matt Damon<\/a> as mythological hero Odysseus, the epic film retells the story of Odysseus\u2019 10-year voyage back to his homeland of Ithaca after the Greek victory at the siege of Troy.<\/p>\n The trailer offers snippets of the main players, including Damon, Tom Holland as Odysseus\u2019s son Telemachus, Anne Hathaway as Odysseus\u2019s wife, Penelope, and Robert Pattinson<\/a> as Antinous, one of the crowd of suitors vying to marry Penelope.<\/p>\n There are also brief glimpses of some of the mythological threats Odysseus encounters, including a whirlpool, the Cyclops and Charlize Theron as the nymph Calypso.<\/p>\n In July a cinema-only trailer<\/a> for the reportedly $250m (\u00a3184m) budget production was leaked online, and in November Nolan revealed<\/a> he had shot more than 2m feet of film for The Odyssey, which has been filmed entirely on large-format Imax cameras.<\/p>\n The Odyssey is due for release on 16 July in Australia and 17 July in the UK and US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first trailer for Christopher Nolan\u2019s adaptation of Homer\u2019s The Odyssey has been released. Starring Matt Damon as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-412766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}