The latest trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has everything: Matt Damon trying to get home (again). The cyclops Polyphemus. Robert Pattinson beefing with Tom Holland. It’s truly an embarrassment of riches — and that’s before we get into the whirlpool Charybdis or the flashes of the Trojan War.
Adapted from Homer’s epic, The Odyssey follows Odysseus’s (Damon) decades-long quest to return home to Ithaca following the fall of Troy. He may be the wiliest of strategists, but are those wiles enough to face down the wrath of the gods?
While Odysseus weathers encounters with monsters like Polyphemus and Scylla and Charybdis, his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) and son Telemachus (Tom Holland) await his return to Ithaca. They’ve been overrun with potential suitors for Penelope, including the slimy Antinous (Pattinson). And when I say slimy, I mean rotten lettuce levels of slimy. Seriously, the trailer is worth the watch for Pattinson’s nasty threats alone.
Damon, Hathaway, Holland, and Pattinson are only the tip of the iceberg of The Odyssey‘s extensive, star-studded cast. Zendaya stars the as the goddess Athena, Charlize Theron plays nymph Calypso, and Jon Bernthal and Benny Safdie play kingly brothers Menelaus and Agamemnon.
The film also stars Lupita Nyong’o, John Leguizamo, Himesh Patel, Mia Goth, Will Yun Lee, Jimmy Gonzalez, Elliot Page, and more.
To catch these stars (and get some serious chills from The Odyssey‘s IMAX-shot visuals), check out the full trailer above.
The Odyssey hits theaters July 17.
