After a long wait, the first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey film has been revealed. This initiative, which aims to teach the younger generation to great classics such as Homer’s Odyssey, appears to be Nolan’s most ambitious. This is clear from the star-studded cast and the fact that the picture was shot entirely with special IMAX cameras. So, now that we’ve already waited a bit for this trailer to be published, let’s not delay things further and go right into what we got to see in the first trailer of The Odyssey Movie.
The cinematography is the first thing that comes to mind when watching the 2-minute film. We didn’t get to see many plot-defining elements in the trailer, but the film makes it clear that The Odyssey might be one of Nolan’s most cinematically great works, possibly even surpassing Interstellar. The clip displays a few scenes from what appears to be the Trojan War.
We then get to see Odysseus (Matt Damon) venturing into the sea with his men, and it appears that the scene belongs to the part of the story where the Sea God, Poseidon, was furious at him for blinding his son, Cyclops Polyphemus. Since Odysseus revealed his name to Polyphemus, he called on his father for revenge, which is why Poseidon created storms for Odysseus and his men, resulting in them getting stranded on Calypso’s Island, Ogygia.
Other than that, we also get to see a scene featuring Tom Holland as Telemachus, Odysseus’s son, and Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Odysseus’s wife, and that’s pretty much it for the trailer.