The first trailer-cum teaser of the much-awaited Christopher Nolan firm “The Odyssey”, with Matt Damon in the lead role of Odysseus (Ulysses), was apparently leaked over the Internet this week, with some media outlets referring to a “mistake” by Universal Pictures, although the publicity generated adds to the anticipation.
“Darkness. Zeus’ law smashed to pieces. Kingdom without a king. He knew it was an unwinnable war. And then somehow, somehow he won it,” is the phrase heard in the “leaked” trailer, with a shot of a beach then emerging and a broken idol of a horse.
Tom Holland, playing Telemachus, Odysseus’ son, who speaks with an unknown, still, man, who tells him he knows not of what happened to the king of Ithaca after the fall of Troy.
The conversation with the unnamed character, played by Jon Bernthal, both of whom are surrounded by other individuals in a packed room.
“I have to find out what happened to my father. When did you last see him?” Telemachus asks. Bernthal’s character replies: “Who has a story about Odysseus? You? You have a story? Some say he’s rich. Some say he’s poor. Some said he perished. Some said he’s imprisoned.”
The clip then cuts to footage of a man floating on a piece of driftwood in the middle of the sea, ostensibly Damon’s Odysseus. The clip ends with the film’s title and its release date of July 2026.
Joining Damon, Holland and Bernthal is an all-star cast that also includes Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Anne Hathaway and Charlize Theron.