{"id":567350,"date":"2026-05-05T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567350\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:09:10","slug":"the-odyssey-trailer-for-christopher-nolan-film-shows-matt-damon-heading-home-to-rescue-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567350\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odyssey: Trailer for Christopher Nolan film shows Matt Damon heading home to rescue family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the trailer we see glimpses of some of the battle scenes, treacherous sea voyages and flashbacks to the war &#8211; the events of which were originally depicted in the Iliad, the book before the Odyssey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Help me go home,&#8221; viewers hear Odysseus plead, after having first found the King of Ithaca washed up on a far away sea shore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Penelope is later seen declaring that &#8220;Ithaca&#8217;s king is coming back&#8221;, but her main suitor Antinous refuses to believe it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My dad is coming home,&#8221; insists a hopeful Telemachus, with his father&#8217;s house having seemingly fallen into disrepute, chaos and ruin during his 20-year absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Holland&#8217;s partner in real life, Zendaya, plays the goddess Athena in the mythological movie, which also features Himesh Patel as Eurylochus, Mia Goth as Melantho and Jimmy Gonzales as Cepheus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cast also includes Lupita Nyong&#8217;o and Will Yun Lee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The big question is, will Odysseus make it back before it&#8217;s too late? He seems to think so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No-one can stand between me and home,&#8221; he states in the trailer. &#8220;Not even the Gods.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the trailer we see glimpses of some of the battle scenes, treacherous sea voyages and flashbacks to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-567350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}