Epic films deserve epic trailers, and the latest one for the eagerly anticipated July release of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is a masterclass in delivering the gargantuan.
There are some impressive big tentpole movies coming later this year. Denis Villeneuve heads back to Arrakis with Dune: Messiah, and Marvel attempts to relight its stuttering superhero flame with Avengers: Doomsday. But the summer looks like it belongs to Christopher Nolan, IMAX, and The Odyssey.
The latest trailer to drop is below (the first was in December) and it's a bit of an epic. This is Homer after all...
The trailer adds plenty of new information to what we saw before. We get the first look at Charlize Theron as Calypso, the first proper look at the Cyclops character, plenty of Robert Pattinson being generally evil as Antinous, and some more of the carnage of the Battle of Troy, which looks to be one of the movie's absolute centrepieces.
Nolan told Empire back in November 2025 that he'd used two million feet of IMAX film across a 91-day shoot. That's just short of 610 km (379 miles), roughly the distance between London and Edinburgh or Washington and Cincinnati. And at around $1.50 a foot, that's just over $3 million spent on film alone.
Much of that footage went through the four new IMAX Keighley Film Cameras built for the project. As we've covered previously, they're 30% quieter than previous IMAX cameras, feature a carbon-fiber body, and an LCD viewfinder, improvements that enabled Nolan to shoot dialogue scenes in IMAX for the first time, and by extension, an entire feature.
At around $250 million plus, The Odyssey is the most expensive film of Nolan's career to date. Given the hype around it though, it could go on to become the most lucrative, which is no mean feat considering that The Dark Knight Rises took over $1 billion at the box office.