The hotly anticipated first trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s subsequent movie, The Odyssey, has been launched into the wild.
Common has positioned the trailer for the movie — billed as a “mythic motion epic” — in entrance of Jurassic Park Rebirth, which has its first screenings Tuesday night.
The trailer wasn’t formally launched on-line. Nolan prefers his trailers to be a cinematic expertise, and the primary teaser trailer for his Oscar-winning 2023 blockbuster Oppenheimer likewise debuted solely in theaters.
But, sadly for Common and Nolan, smartphones exist. So virtually instantly, the trailer popped up on X (and the ensuing video is, for sure, lower than cinematic in high quality). The Hollywood Reporter is just not linking to the leaked trailer, although there’s an outline of it under.
Releasing the trailer so early is a bit uncommon, as The Odyssey continues to be filming and never being launched till July of subsequent 12 months. However given that the brand new Jurassic World movie is predicted to open to not less than $100 million on the field workplace and represents Common’s greatest and most secure wager on its launch docket for months, coupling Jurassic with the primary push for Nolan’s huge occasion movie is sensible.
For the reason that adaptation of the traditional Greek epic poem isn’t completed, it’s maybe no shock the ensuing trailer could be very a lot a teaser. The teaser opens with pictures of a darkish ocean together with the voiceover: “Darkness. Zeus’ legislation smashed to items. I’m and not using a king since my grasp died. He knew it was an unwinnable conflict. After which, one way or the other, he gained it.”
Then the trailer reveals a scene with Tom Holland as Odysseus’ son Telemachus having a dialog with an as-yet-unnamed character performed by Jon Bernthal.
“I’ve to search out out what occurred to my father,” Telemachus says, to which Bernthal’s character says loudly to a room, “Who has a narrative about Odysseus? You? You might have a narrative? Some say he’s wealthy. Some say he’s poor. Some mentioned he perished. Some mentioned he’s imprisoned.”
Then the trailer reveals driftwood at sea with a person laying on it — presumably Matt Damon because the Greek king.
As well as, the celebrity-filled forged contains Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron and Mia Goth.
The Odyssey has a finances of $250 million, which can make it the costliest movie of Nolan’s profession. Will probably be shot totally utilizing Imax cameras, making it the primary movie with a serious scope to take action. Whereas one is tempted to make use of the phrase “gamble” to explain the venture, the billion-dollar success of Nolan’s atomic power biopic a pair years again proved but once more he’s one of many few administrators who can reliably open a movie, and The Odyssey‘s epic scope and star-filled forged ought to show a serious draw.
The basic story follows the king of Ithaca as he undertakes an extended and dangerous journey house following the Trojan Struggle. The unique story has Odysseus encountering a succession of legendary beings such because the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, the enchantress Circe, and travels to the Underworld.
Filming obtained underway in February at areas in Greece, Morocco and Italy. The movie is slated to be launched July 17, 2026.