{"id":668598,"date":"2026-07-01T21:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668598\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:04:11","slug":"ithacas-king-defies-the-gods-in-final-the-odyssey-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668598\/","title":{"rendered":"Ithaca&#8217;s king defies the gods in final The Odyssey trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re counting down the days until the release of Christopher Nolan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Odyssey_(2026_film)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Odyssey<\/a>, and Universal Pictures has released one last trailer to keep anticipation high.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us read some version of The Odyssey in high school, so we\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/culture\/2026\/05\/nolans-the-odyssey-gets-a-new-trailer-and-were-here-for-it\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">familiar with the story<\/a>: Odysseus, legendary Greek king of Ithaca, begins the long journey home after 10 years of fighting in the Trojan War. But the journey doesn\u2019t go smoothly, as Odysseus and his men encounter the cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, and an enchantress named Circe, among other obstacles. Meanwhile, Penelope, his long-suffering wife, wards off hundreds of suitors eager to usurp Odysseus\u2019 position.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Damon stars as the wandering Ithacan king. The cast also includes Anne Hathaway as Penelope; Tom Holland as Odysseus\u2019 son, Telemachus; Robert Pattinson as Antinous, one of Penelope\u2019s many suitors; Jon Bernthal as the Spartan king, Menelaus; Benny Safdie as the Achaean commander during the Trojan War, Agamemnon; John Leguizamo as Odysseus\u2019 faithful servant, Eumaeus; Himesh Patel as his second-in-command, Eurylochus; Will Yun Lee and Jimmy Gonzales as crew members; and Mia Goth as Penelope\u2019s maid Melantho. We also have Zendaya as Athena, Charlize Theron as Circe, and Lupita Nyong\u2019o in a dual role: both Helen of Troy and Helen\u2019s sister, Clytemnestra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re counting down the days until the release of Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey, and Universal Pictures has released&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668598","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\/668598","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=668598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}