The first teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has leaked online. It’s brief, ominous, and quietly epic – and if you can’t find a leak or get to the cinema, this is what happens.
When Nolan makes a movie, people show up, it’s that simple; how else do you explain how a three-hour, part-black-and-white biopic about the man who created the atomic bomb makes nearly a billion dollars worldwide?
His next movie is a behemoth: The Odyssey, an adaptation of the ancient Greek poem, with an estimated budget of $250 million, an all-star cast (including Tom Holland, Matt Damon, and Robert Pattinson), and it’s been filmed exclusively with IMAX film cameras.
After the success of Oppenheimer, there’s already an extraordinary level of hype for The Odyssey. So, it’s unsurprising that the first teaser has leaked as soon as it started screening in cinemas with Jurassic World Rebirth.
The Odyssey trailer breakdown
The first teaser trailer for The Odyssey is just over a minute long (1:16, to be precise), showing glimpses of Holland (Telemachus), Damon (Odysseus), and Jon Bernthal’s character.
After the Universal Pictures and Syncopy logos, it opens on the sea under a lavender sky, cutting to water trickling over sand and the shadow of a Trojan horse on the beach. “Darkness… Zeus’ law smashed to pieces, a kingdom without a king since my master died,” someone narrates (it sounds like John Leguizamo, but it could be Robert Pattinson).
“He knew it was an unwinnable war. And then somehow… somehow he won it.”
The trailer returns to the shot of the sea, slowly zooming in on a piece of wreckage bobbing alone in the distance. “I know nothing of Odysseus, not since Troy,” Bernthal then says.
“I have to find out what happened to my father. When did you last see him?” Holland’s Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, asks Bernthal.
“Interested in rumor, huh? Gossip? Who has a story about Odysseus, huh? You? You, you have a story? Some say he’s rich, some say he’s poor. Some say he perished, some say he’s imprisoned. What say you?” Bernthal replies.
As he speaks, we see shots of Odysseus charging through the streets with other soldiers, venturing into a dark cave alone, and seemingly approaching a castle in the depths of morning.
“Imprisoned?” Telemachus asks, and Bernthal says: “What kind of prison… could hold a man like that?”
The trailer ends on a shot of Damon’s Odysseus lying on the wreckage, adrift and alone, and perhaps barely alive.
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