{"id":30981,"date":"2025-07-01T22:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/30981\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:29:10","slug":"christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-teaser-leaks-online-first-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/30981\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Teaser Leaks Online: First Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe first teaser for Christopher Nolan<\/a> and Universal\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey<\/a>,\u201d which is beginning to play exclusively in theaters, has leaked online on X and TikTok.<\/p>\n

\n\tLike many of Nolan\u2019s previous blockbusters, most recently for best picture winner \u201cOppenheimer\u201d in 2023, the famed director has released a short teaser more than a year in advance. \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d teaser is timed to be included alongside the release of Universal\u2019s \u201cJurassic World Rebirth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe footage\u2019s exclusivity to theaters keeps with Nolan\u2019s longstanding prioritization of theatrical exhibition. The director jumped from his decades-long partner Warner Bros. to Universal for \u201cOppenheimer\u201d after he voiced dismay that his old studio woud be releasing its entire 2021 theatrical slate simultaneously to HBO Max. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut even before \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d teaser could begin to play in the United States leaks began popping up Tuesday afternoon, with many of them getting swiftly taken down under copyright flags. This isn\u2019t the first time a major movie or show has been hit by a leak. \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home,\u201d \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d and the final season of \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d all faced early footage leaking online.<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety has reached out to Universal for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe teaser, which is 70 seconds long, briefly shows Matt Damon\u2019s lead character Odysseus, his son Telemachus (played by Tom Holland) and a mystery character played by Jon Bernthal. It begins with some narration by what sounds like Robert Pattinson, who also plays an unknown character.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDarkness. Zeus\u2019 laws smashed to pieces. A kingdom without a king since my master died,\u201d he says over shots of a dark blue ocean and waves crashing along the sandy shore. \u201cHe knew it was an unwinnable war, and then somehow\u2026somehow he won it.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThere are two shots of what appears to be the famous Trojan Horse \u2014 Odysseus\u2019 master plan to sneak Greek soldiers into Troy, massacre the soldiers and sack the city to win the war. The wooden horse\u2019s shadow is stretched across the beach, then the horse itself is seen at a distance half-submerged in water as waves roll in. In Homer\u2019s original epic, Odysseus\u2019s journey home takes ten years after his ship is blown off course and he encounters monsters like the Cyclops, is held captive by the nymph Calypso, and has run-ins with various Greek gods.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe teaser then cuts to a tense conversation between Telemachus and Bernthal\u2019s character, where the latter is explaining that he doesn\u2019t know Odysseus\u2019 whereabouts.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI know nothing of Odysseus, not since Troy,\u201d Bernthal says as a dark storm rolls in over the water.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have to find out what happened to my father. When did you last see him?\u201d Holland replies. He and Bernthal are next to each other with other characters sitting beside them in the background, lit up by dim orange flames.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cInterested in rumor, huh? Gossip. Who has a story about Odysseus, huh?\u201d Bernthal begins shouting to the others near them. \u201cYou? You have a story?\u201d There\u2019s a shot of Greek soldiers clad in armor and carrying torches marching through a city street at night. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe white words \u201cOne Year From Now\u201d appear on the black screen, teasing the film\u2019s far-off release date.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSome say he\u2019s rich or some say he\u2019s poor,\u201d he continues as a faraway shot shows a Greek soldier stepping through a cavernous entrance and unsheathing his sword. \u201cA Journey Begins\u201d is shown on screen.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSome say he perished. Some say he\u2019s imprisoned. What say you?\u201d Bernthal asks over a shot of men walking toward a city at night as a ragged flag waves.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cImprisoned?\u201d Telemachus asks.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat kind of prison? Good, old man like that,\u201d Bernthal says. There are a couple more shots of dark waves, and then it\u2019s revealed that Odysseus is stranded in the middle of the ocean on some scraps of wood. \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d and \u201c17. 07. 26\u201d flash on screen, ending the teaser.<\/p>\n

\n\tLike \u201cOppenheimer,\u201d the cast for \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d is sprawling and star-studded. It also includes Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong\u2019o, Charlize Theron, Elliot Page, Himesh Patel, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Mia Goth, Corey Hawkins, Cosmo Jarvis and more. The film is currently in production and will be the first large-scale production to be shot entirely with Imax cameras. Like Nolan\u2019s past films, the teaser is expected to be released online later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first teaser for Christopher Nolan and Universal\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d which is beginning to play exclusively in theaters,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26299,171,3279,67,132,184,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-30981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-christopher-nolan","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-the-odyssey","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-universal-pictures","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114780344436568940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}