The first teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan and Universal’s 2026 tentpole The Odyssey leaked online on Tuesday after it played alongside earl
The first teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan and Universal’s 2026 tentpole The Odyssey leaked online on Tuesday after it played alongside early screenings of Jurassic World: Rebirth, which opens on Wednesday.
The teaser did not officially launch online and by Tuesday afternoon had appeared on X and TikTok. Towards the end of the afternoon most of the leaks had been taken down.
Nolan argues for his trailers to be seen in cinemas and, with just over a year to go until the tentpole opens on July 17 2026, he is still working on the Homeric epic. Filmmaker and studio followed a similar pattern when they debuted a theatrical teaser trailer of Oppenheimer alongside Nope screenings in July 2022, a year before the eventual multiple Oscar winner opened.
The Odyssey tells the popular myth of Greek king Odysseus’s long return home to Ithaca after fighting in the 10-year Trojan War.
The trailer features scenes of warfare and gladiatorial arenas, and Tom Holland as Telemachus, son of Odysseus, enquiring as to the fate of his father. Jon Bernthal appears as an unidentified character, and the final image showed what appeared to be Odysseus floating on driftwood.
The cast includes Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, John Leguizamo, Samantha Morton, and Mia Goth.
The Odyssey production is reportedly costing about $250m and so far filming has taken place in Morocco and Italy.
Nolan is shooting entirely on Imax cameras, making The Odyssey the first film to do so. Speaking to reporters in Cannes recently, Imax CEO Rich Gelfond said Nolan called him about a year prior to shooting and said he would be willing to shoot entirely on Imax cameras if they could “resolve” some technological issues that occurred during production on Oppenheimer.
“We couldn’t do it [on Oppenheimer] for a lot of reasons,” said Gelfond, explaining that the key stumbling blocks had been the time required to reload cameras and watch dailies on 70mm projectors, as well as sound issues.
“We have resolved these problems,” Gelfond added, “so this will be the first film filmed 100% on Imax cameras.”
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