Matt Damon faces monsters, shipwrecks, and more in first trailer for 'The Odyssey'

Can’t a Greek hero just go home?

Matt Damon is on quite the journey in the first trailer for “The Odyssey,” directed by Christopher Nolan.

“After years of war, nothing could stand between my men and homenot even me,” Damon’s Odysseus says in the beginning of the trailer.

Odysseus and his men face countless perils on their epic journey home after the Trojan War, including sirens, witches, angry gods, and as we see briefly in the trailer, a giant cyclops.

Our hero and his men travel by land and sea to try to return home, but if you’re familiar with the classic tale, one of the oldest in history, it’s not gonna be even remotely easy.

We also get a glimpse of Anne Hathaway as Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, and Tom Holland as their son, Telemachus, who patiently wait for him while a group of suitors, including one played by Robert Pattinson, try to marry her in Odysseus’ presumed death.

Also in the film are Zendaya as the goddess Athena, Charlize Theron as the witch Circe, Benny Safdie as Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, Jon Bernthal as Menelaus, the Greek king of Sparta, John Leguizamo, as Eumaeus, a loyal servant to Odysseus, Mia Goth as Melantho, a servant to Odysseus and Penelope, and Lupita Nyong’o in an unnamed role.

Christopher Nolan directs “The Odyssey,” from a script he co-wrote with his wife, Emma Thomas.

The epic film was shot across multiple locations around the world using Imax cameras, and is, as Universal executive Jim Orr stated at Cinemacon last year, “a visionary, once-in-a-generation cinematic masterpiece that Homer himself would quite likely be proud of,” per Variety.

“The Odyssey” is in theaters July 17, 2026.