The first teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is now playing in cinemas in front of “Jurassic World: Rebirth,” and unsurprisingly bootlegs have already begun to pop up online.
Here’a description of what we see in the trailer, which mostly centers on a conversation between Tom Holland’s Telemachus, son of Odysseus (Matt Damon) and Jon Bernthal’s Menelaus who has returned home to Sparta after the events of Troy.
The teaser opens over an overcast sea, a long shot tracking over the water, intercut with a shoreline where the horse-themed bow of a ship sticks out of the sand. Menelaus says: “Darkness. Zeus’s laws smashed to pieces. A kingdom without a king since my master died.”
Someone, possibly still him, says: “He knew it was an unwinnable war. And then somehow, somehow he won it.” Menelaus continues: “I know nothing of Odysseus, not since Troy.” Holland says: “I have to find out what happened to my father.”
Cut to Telemachus and Menelaus in some kind of night time dinner hall conversing in the fire light, dressed in appropriate attire. Telemachus asks: “When did you last see him?”
Menelaus turns to him and says: “Interested in rumor huh. Gossip.” Turning to the room he says: “Who has a story about Odysseus? You! Do you have a story? Some say he’s rich, or some said he’s poor. Some say he perished, some say he’s imprisoned. What say you?”
As he says this we see armored Greeks wandering through a nighttime village, someone at the mouth of a large cave, and two people wandering under a blue overcast twilight sky with a flag waving nearby. It briefly cuts back to Telemachus saying “Imprisoned?” before cutting back to the opening ocean flyover shot.
Menelaus says, “What kind of prison could hold a man like that? I don’t know,” as we see Odysseus lying on a piece of ship wreckage floating on the waves. Cut to title.
The 70-second teaser plays in front of copies of “Jurassic World Rebirth” with reportedly different aspect ratios depending upon how you see that film (ie. IMAX or regular CinemaScope).
“The Odyssey” opens in cinemas next July.
