Nolan's The Odyssey - Potentially could be epic or an epic flop.

[Tasty Tatty]

In theaters on July 17, 2026.

Featuring:

Matt Damon as Odysseus

With:
Anne Hathaway as Penelope
Tom Holland as Telemachus
Jon Bernthal as Menelaus
Robert Pattinson as Antinous
Charlize Theron as Calypso
Zendaya as Athena
Mia Goth as Melantho
Elliot Page as Sinon
Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy / Clytemnestra
Samantha Morton as Circe
John Leguizamo as Eumaeus

First look of Matt Damon as Odysseus:



(there are more pics, will be posting later)

Discuss.

 

[Plumber's Kokoro Wish]

Main question is how are they going to attempt to make Ellen Page (5' 1") not look utterly ridiculous

 

[Asian tech support]

Dey do be appropriatin' ελληνικά kulcha.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Post in thread 'Elliot Page / Ellen Page' https://kiwifarms.net/threads/elliot-page-ellen-page.168069/post-20482644

That is all.

 

[CoolDudeXD]

Pooner and copy and paste brown chick? Hard pass.

 

[Chad Holdenford]

Who is Zendaya fucking to have so many high-profile roles?

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Who is Zendaya fucking to have so many high-profile roles?

Tom Holland.

And it's funny people thought Holland would play Odysseus bc he was going to have a main lead role. You can tell who didn't read the book.

 

[Elite Kipchak]

not a single person listed there would fit as a character in the odyssey, except maybe as a background servant or one of the suitors that odysseus butchers. I can't wait to hear about this ad-nauseum as anti-woke and anti-anti-woke grifters fight over if there really were niggers and/or women in ancient greece.

 

[Oulun]

We went from Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger in 2004's Troy to Tom Holland and his mystery meat mulatta today, over twenty years later. God damn every jew in Hollywood.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

if there really were niggers

Yes

and/or women in ancient greece.

No

 

[Mussolini’s Merkin]

not a single person listed there would fit as a character in the odyssey, except maybe as a background servant or one of the suitors that odysseus butchers. I can't wait to hear about this ad-nauseum as anti-woke and anti-anti-woke grifters fight over if there really were niggers and/or women in ancient greece.

Bernthal is usually pretty good, but the rest of the cast is just awful.

It'll suck shit though, just as everything he has done since Dark Knight Rises. Nolan is unable to balance his audio correctly if his life depended on it. Not being able to hear dialogue is just so 'naturalistic'.

 

[winterfag]

should've started with The Iliad to properly set up the cinematic Homerverse

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Gay and melanated. Will be a critically praised pile of shit.

 

[ShiftyBoi]

I'm sure it will be well shot but I've never been a fan of Nolan's choice of color. It's always washed out and grey, whether it's trying to be sleek or gritty. Hate it. I miss when fantasy films and epics were colorful. Music will be amazing.

Don't know why Zendaya's in this but Matt Damon and Tom Holland aren't exactly the most olive actors so whatever they're not going for realism to begin with.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

I actually think Bernthal will do a good job, whatever his role is. I have a hunch he's gonna be one of the suitors. Hathaway could well be Penelope.

We went from Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger in 2004's Troy to Tom Holland and his mystery meat mulatta today, over twenty years later. God damn every jew in Hollywood.

They're good, but will never beat the superior version that was the Hallmark miniseries with Armand Assante.

And for the record, yes, it had a black actress. Calipso. But it was played by freaking Vanessa Williams.

 

[Safir]

And it's funny people thought Holland would play Odysseus bc he was going to have a main lead role. You can tell who didn't read the book.

¿why? Odysseus is not a chud, he's resourceful, I forgot the Greek word, basically he'd be a thief in an RPG. Tom Holland looks the part and is 27. Leave Him There is 55.

 

[Registration]

I dread that they will make Ellen Page Telemachus.

My boy can't catch a break, as a fan of Fenelon book, I want Telemachus to be cool

 

[Tasty Tatty]

¿why? Odysseus is not a chud, he's resourceful, I forgot the Greek word, basically he'd be a thief in an RPG. Tom Holland looks the part and is 27. Leave Him There is 55.

Because Holland has the right age to play Telemachus, not Odysseus.

If some 20-something dude tells me he's offered a main role in The Odyssey, my first guess it's that he's playing Telemachus, not his father. Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, and a few gods are main roles.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

If you showed this cast to someone 100 years ago, they'd wonder why The Odyssey was now a minstrel show.

not a single person listed there would fit as a character in the odyssey, except maybe as a background servant or one of the suitors that odysseus butchers. I can't wait to hear about this ad-nauseum as anti-woke and anti-anti-woke grifters fight over if there really were niggers and/or women in ancient greece.

Dey wuz all black cuz dey be right next to Afrika n shieet n dem crackaz still lived in caves back den creatin gayness and learnin da TRICKNOLOGY dey use 2 hide da fact Ancient Greece be black

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Maybe Nolan will film the censored chapter where Odysseus has to escape from Yakub's island.