New ‘The Odyssey’ images show Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland as family divided (exclusive)

Christopher Nolan isn’t one for telling small stories — and his next one is no exception. In fact, it’s an epic.

The Oppenheimer Oscar-winner is tackling one of the most expansive stories ever written: Homer’s The Odyssey, a work of Greek literature written around the 8th century BC. He’s reteaming with Matt Damon, who stars as Odysseus, king of Ithaca, on his 10-year trek home following the Trojan War, as seen in Entertainment Weekly‘s exclusive new images, along with Himesh Patel‘s Eurylochus (above).

That journey isn’t an easy one: Along the way, he encounters mythical creatures, including the cyclops Polyphemus, as well as the seduce-to-death-by-song Sirens, and the witch Circe, who infamously turned Odysseus’ men into pigs.

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The movie is also a reunion for Nolan and Anne Hathaway, who played Selina Kyle/Catwoman in 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises, and Dr. Brand in Interstellar. Here, she plays Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, who’s been holding off potential suitors, all of whom want her hand (and crown) in marriage. Tom Holland plays their son, Telemachus, who, in Homer’s original literature, eventually leaves Ithaca to seek information about his father’s whereabouts and fate.

In addition to Damon, Hathaway, Holland, and Patel, The Odyssey also stars Robert Pattinson, seen in an exclusive image below as Antinous, as well as Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Elliot Page, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Bill Irwin, Samantha Morton, Jesse Garcia, and Will Yun Lee.

Universal Pictures has described the movie as “a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film technology.” Nolan can be seen directing the movie alongside that IMAX camera below.

Audiences who saw select movies this summer and fall in IMAX — including Jurassic World Rebirth, Superman, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and One Battle After Another — got a sneak peek at footage from the movie, which included flashes of Odysseus, Telemachus, and a shadowy figure played by Bernthal (perhaps Agamemnon’s brother, Menelaus?), who’s heard telling Telemachus, “I know nothing of Odysseus, not since Troy.”

Telemachus pleads, “I have to find out what happened to my father. When did you last see him?”

There are also two shots of the iconic Trojan Horse: one that casts a shadow on the beach, and the other partially submerged in water.

And a prologue to the film played this weekend with IMAX 70mm screenings of Sinners and One Battle After Another, showing Odysseus and his men hiding inside that Trojan Horse just before the start of the Battle of Troy.

In addition to directing, Nolan also wrote the script (surely no easy task, considering Homer’s Odyssey was comprised of 24 books) and is producing with his wife, Emma Thomas.

The Odyssey hits theaters July 17, 2026.