{"id":586917,"date":"2026-04-16T02:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586917\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:39:08","slug":"christopher-nolan-debuts-epic-new-footage-from-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586917\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Nolan Debuts Epic New Footage From ‘The Odyssey’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOne of the \u2014 if not the No. 1 \u2014 most anticipated movies of the year arrived at CinemaCon<\/a> on Wednesday, as Christopher Nolan<\/a> showed off some new footage from The Odyssey<\/a> during Universal\u2019s presentation. <\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing a compilation video of his past work, the filmmaker took the stage to a standing ovation, joking he was glad not to be following Steven Spielberg. He mused, \u201cWhy The Odyssey? It\u2019s a story that has fascinated generation after generation for 3,000 years; it\u2019s not a story, but the story. I wanted to grab the exciting opportunity of bringing it to a modern cinema audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNolan spoke about realizing his dream of capturing the entire film on Imax and joked of the star-studded cast, \u201cit would be quicker for me to tell you who isn\u2019t in The Odyssey\u201d than who is. He said he decided to appear solo because the weight of their talents would collapse the stage. He specifically highlighted his \u201cpartner\u201d Matt Damon<\/a>, admitting \u201cthis film has been an absolute nightmare to film\u201d and he\u2019s sure the leading man would agree.<\/p>\n

\n\tNolan revealed he was almost finished with the cut before throwing to some footage, which began with Damon\u2019s Odysseus asking Calypso (played by Charlize Theron), \u201cHow long have I been here, Calypso? I don\u2019t remember anything before Troy. Did I have a wife, children, a son? If I had a son, how old would he be now?\u201d as clips of a younger Odysseus with his son (Tom Holland) and wife (Anne Hathaway) flashed.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe footage then cut to one of The Odyssey\u2018s most iconic stories, when the Greeks hid inside a wooden horse during the Trojan War to enter the city of Troy and win the war. We first see the Trojan Horse in the sea, with the men inside fighting for their lives not to drown. They are pulled into the city, where they wait until night to come out and launch their attack, led by Damon and Jon Bernthal, as the men go running through the city. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Odyssey is an adaptation of\u00a0Homer\u2019s\u00a0ancient Greek epic, with Damon\u00a0playing the Greek king of\u00a0Ithaca on a long and perilous journey home after the\u00a0Trojan War\u00a0as he attempts to reunite with his wife Penelope.\u00a0The 10-year journey is filled with interruptions and influence from the gods (not to mention a few cyclopes), as back home Penelope and Odysseus\u2019s son Telemachus must contend with aggressive suitors who have designs on the throne.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe star-studded cast also features Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong\u2019o, Benny Safdie, Mia Goth, Elliot Page, Samantha Morton, Ryan Hurst and Travis Scott. The Odyssey is set for a July 17 theatrical release, and serves as Nolan\u2019s follow-up to his blockbuster best picture winner\u00a0Oppenheimer.<\/p>\n

\n\tBuzz around the film has been high for months \u2014 with tickets to see it in Imax 70mm on opening day sold out<\/a> a year in advance \u2014 and has been fueled by the cast; Holland recently called<\/a> it \u201can absolute masterpiece, and I\u2019m taking myself out of that equation.\u201d He continued, \u201cIt\u2019s unlike anything that I\u2019ve ever seen before. I think when I saw the movie, I found myself asking a question that I haven\u2019t asked about a movie for a long time, which is, \u2018How did you do that?’\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the \u2014 if not the No. 1 \u2014 most anticipated movies of the year arrived at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[15279,232746,255240,88,15281,12720],"class_list":{"0":"post-586917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-christopher-nolan","9":"tag-cinemacon","10":"tag-cinemacon-2026","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-matt-damon","13":"tag-the-odyssey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}