Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey': final trailer arrives
Ahead of its July 17 premiere, the final trailer for Nolan's 'The Odyssey' has landed, the first film shot entirely in 70mm IMAX, led by Matt Damon and Tom Holland.
- Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' opens in theaters on July 17, 2026, and the final trailer has dropped just before the premiere.
- The film runs about 172 minutes and is the first ever shot entirely in 70mm IMAX.
- The ensemble is led by Matt Damon and Tom Holland, alongside Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Charlize Theron and Lupita Nyong'o.
- North American opening estimates range from $80 million to $100 million.
Christopher Nolan has finally shown his hand. Ahead of the premiere set for July 17, 2026, the final trailer for ‘The Odyssey’ has been released, and Hollywood insiders have spent months billing this adaptation of Homer’s epic as the event of the year. The clip opens on Odysseus, played by Matt Damon, walking alone across an empty beach, tiny against an endless sea. A single shot, and it holds the whole idea of the film: the long road home, and one man set against fate.
This time Nolan has pushed the technique as hard as the story. According to the production, ‘The Odyssey’ is the first film ever shot entirely in 70mm IMAX, meaning every frame carries the resolution and depth that keep audiences coming back to the big houses. The film runs about 172 minutes, and the shoot leaned on real locations, from Morocco and Greece to Scotland and Ireland, favoring practical effects over digital backdrops.
Who stars in Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’?
The cast is the kind a studio assembles only when it believes it has a masterpiece on its hands. Alongside Matt Damon as Odysseus, the poster carries Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Charlize Theron and Lupita Nyong’o. It is a mix of trusted Nolan collaborators and newer names that pull in a younger crowd, exactly the combination Hollywood counts on to reach the widest possible audience.
Early reactions from those who have already seen it have only fed the anticipation. Tom Holland called it “absolutely a masterpiece,” a line that raced across social media and became one of the campaign’s main selling points. In a landscape where hype is built and broken overnight, praise from inside the cast carries real weight, though the verdict, as always, will come from the crowds in the theaters.
How much is it expected to make on opening?
The studio is not hiding its ambition. Opening-weekend estimates in North America range from $80 million to $100 million, which would place ‘The Odyssey’ among the strongest summer starts of the year. For a film with no classic franchise foundation, resting on Nolan’s name and an ancient text, that is a figure that shows just how much the distributor believes in the project.
For audiences abroad the math is simple. Nolan is a director whose films still fill full houses, and IMAX screenings routinely sell out days in advance. ‘The Odyssey’ arrives as a summer spectacle built precisely for the big screen, a story three thousand years old told with the most advanced technology cinema has today.
So will you watch ‘The Odyssey’ in an IMAX house, the way Nolan intended, or wait for a regular screening?
