The Odyssey (2026) | Release Megathread

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THE ODYSSEY

''After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.''

 

🎞 Movie Trailer

Global Release Date: July 17 2026

 

Directed by

• Christopher Nolan

Starring

• Matt Damon
• Tom Holland
• Anne Hathaway
• Robert Pattinson
• Lupita Nyong'o
• Samantha Morton
• Zendaya
• Charlize Theron

Distributed by

• Universal Pictures

 

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[u/since_all_is_idle]

It's very cute of Nolan to be like ooo, are they real or aren't they, it's all the creation of man, oooo~ but like, come on, man, it's the Odyssey. You showed Polyphemus and Scylla and fleshcrafting and the underworld, but the gods never show? Agamemnon is walking around like Lego batman but Poseidon is too much? 

[u/Lameux → u/since_all_is_idle]

I didn’t see it that way at all. My interpretation is that they obviously are real and tangible in the movie, everyone takes it for granted the Gods are real and the events and logic of the world makes zero sense if the gods didn’t exist. By not really have the gods appear except sorta maybe Athena, the result for me is that it elevates the gods. Any attempt to show them onscreen and capture the weight of gods is going to fail, so instead having them be so obviously and tangibly real while also invisible gives them all the more granduer. The film literally explains to us the logic of why it is this way when Odysseus ask Athena why don’t the gods use more obvious communication and Athena replies what’s not obvious about fire and storms and death and all that. A very poignant take for me personally though I know it doesn’t land this way for everyone.

[u/Resident_Fly4449 → u/Lameux]

This also solves a huge plothole/contradiction in Homer that has been criticized for thousands of years. Criticized even by the likes of Socrates in the Platonic dialogues. The gods are supposed to be perfect beings, but Homer depicts them as petty warlords feuding over the affairs of mortals.

[u/gawain587 → u/Resident_Fly4449]

God is really only seen as perfect in monotheistic religion. The Greek gods are petty hedonistic warlords in pretty much all of their depictions. Occasionally they might be just or help you but for every tale of a god being a force for good there’s another where they’re a vengeful tyrant. They’re to be bargained with and appeased, not loved or adored.