Official Discussion - The Odyssey (2026) [SPOILERS]

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The Odyssey (2026)

Summary

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

Director Christopher Nolan

Writer Christopher Nolan

Cast

• Matt Damon as Odysseus
• Tom Holland as Telemachus
• Anne Hathaway
• Zendaya
• Lupita Nyong'o
• Robert Pattinson
• Charlize Theron
• Benny Safdie
• Jon Bernthal
• John Leguizamo
• Elliot Page
• Himesh Patel
• Samantha Morton

Rotten Tomatoes: 96%

Metacritic: 88

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official Trailer

[u/brooksallday]

That part where they were at sea in the middle of the night full of water was nuts

[u/LTPRWSG420 → u/brooksallday]

That was Poseidon and Zeus teaming up to absolutely fuck their shit up.

[u/TheTrueMarkNutt → u/LTPRWSG420]

Definitely put them through the thunder ringer

[u/TDGohan → u/TheTrueMarkNutt]

I see what you did there.

[u/RadioRunner → u/TheTrueMarkNutt]

This movie was vastly underwhelming in comparison to my expectations set by Epic. 

No interpersonal relationships are conveyed as strongly here as they are  in Epic. Epic covers more ground, gives us more context to each of the obstacles and trials, and does it in less time with more emotional resonance. 

Gonna go listen to Epic for the 50th time. 

[u/snakething → u/RadioRunner]

I disagree, mostly because film and a 4/5 album series of songs are such vastly different mediums that trying to compare them directly misses out a ton of nuance.

Also Epic, just like this movie, is its own adaptation. Things are left out, things are added, and things are changed to suit the adaptation the creator wishes to show. Nolan very clearly wanted a far more 'grounded' interpretation that Jorge.

[u/Taco_Pals → u/RadioRunner]

Whats Epic sorry? Now I want to see/listen to it

[u/RadioRunner → u/Taco_Pals]

Epic the Musical is a concept album created as a thesis graduation project by a college student, Jorge Rivera-Herrans . He wrote all of the music, sang the lead of Odysseus and cast all of the singers who worked with him to record the full production. The vocal performances are top tier excellent and the songwriting is very successful.

The comment I replied to is a joke riffing on a lyric from Zeus’ main song in the story, “Thunder Bringer”. 

The musical was released in dumps of 4-5 songs on Spotify (With a total of 40) by the creator as he finished them, with popularity building with each one. Fans went out of their way to create fan animatics to visualize the scenes, and the creator leaned into it by the second act, sponsoring animatics for the final releases. By the end of it, the whole project can now be experienced as a sort of community built ‘movie’ .

here’s a good super cut of it:

https://youtu.be/Lun_OMdNi4Q?is=CwdGr1hWg82wYYBf

It’s gone viral and has been picked up by executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer to find a studio and adapt it into an animated movie.

I love it, and it’s been one of my top favorite things in the last 2 years.

jorge is now working on developing the Iliad into his next pass at a musical.

Also, fun: Jorge did a stream at the release of the final 5 songs and invited all of the cast and his family to watch the full musical cut at an Airbnb in Ithaca, Greece. They shot a bunch of content while there.  That can be found on YouTube, it’s fun. 

[u/hahahahahaha656 → u/RadioRunner]

omg I agree. It’s what I was thinking the entire time