Inevitably, the teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has leaked online after it was released ahead of Jurassic World: Rebirth this week. There are numerous copies of varying quality online, but they are being taken down as soon as they go up.
Be warned, there are also AI fan-creations of varying quality and the dreaded “concept” trailers from anyone with editing software and a Two Steps From Hell music subscription. Be careful out there, Outposters.
If we link to it here, the link will be dead within the hour. So, for those of you who haven’t seen it, it centers on a conversation between Telemachus (Tom Holland), son of Odysseus (Matt Damon), and Menelaus (Jon Bernthal).
Menelaus has returned from Troy, but Odysseus is lost en route. The teaser shows an overcast sea in a long tracking shot, a wrecked ship, and a voiceover from Menelaus:
“Darkness. Zeus’s laws smashed to pieces. A kingdom without a king since my master died.”
The voiceover continues:
“He knew it was an unwinnable war. And then somehow, somehow he won it. I know nothing of Odysseus, not since Troy.”
The conversation continues, with Telemachus expressing his need to find his father, interspersed with shots that seem to show Odysseus and crew undergoing their various trials, before Menelaus implores a room to share stories of Odysseus. The final shot is of Odysseus lying on a piece of wreckage, floating on the sea.
After the teaser started to spread online, a report over at Dark Horizons highlighted that much of the debate in the online community has centred on the accents in the movie.
Everyone speaking, including English actor Tom Holland, are all using American accents despite the ancient Greek setting. Nobody is quite sure why they went with this approach rather than the traditional movie approach for a historical epic, having everyone speak in standard British like a BBC newsreader.
Meanwhile, Universal Pictures has released a poster for the new film.
The Odyssey arrives in cinemas next July.
