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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

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u/TheChlorideThief 10h ago

Sometimes you forget this movie is based on a story so old the mentor guy is actually named “Mentor”

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u/damnyoutuesday 9h ago

That was a "ohhhhh so that's where that comes from" moment

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u/Greizen_bregen 9h ago

And the term Odyssey comes from... Odysseus.

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u/Spider_Dude 9h ago

Slow down there professor.

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u/hazbutler 5h ago

Wait until he hears about Achilles

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u/BigMickKegger 1h ago

Achillessey? Am I doing it right?

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u/chrisrayn 6h ago

He’s just bringing news of other lands, Zeus’s requirement for Xenia, guest rights. And this professor will go as fast as he wants, thank you.

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u/Oveh 7h ago

😂😂😂😂

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u/suckmygoddamnbeans 8h ago

I mean He Is technically true tho.

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u/RemyGee 6h ago

Doesn’t the word Odyssey come about because of the name of the poem? The meaning is a long complicated journey and that’s the poem.

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u/thejonslaught 4h ago

True, and License to Ill, the debut album from NY Hip Hop legends Beastie Boys was named after Homer's The Illiad.

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u/Spider_Dude 4h ago

No sleep till Ithaca is still a banger of a track.

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u/thejonslaught 4h ago

I loved Brass Hoplon when I was a kid.

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u/Dairy_Ashford 7h ago

never trust a geek sharing tips

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast 8h ago

Not from Super Mario?

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u/OtakuTacos 8h ago

But is Biggus Dickus in this movie?

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u/hazbutler 5h ago

He has a wife, you know…

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u/pare_doxa 6h ago

like Honda Odyssey?

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u/DrewAnderson 8h ago

That’s a stretch

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u/damnyoutuesday 9h ago

Contrary to popular belief, those terms are completely unrelated /s

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u/-p_d- 8h ago

And Odysseus was a great general who returned from a long and brutal war to be king.

In America we also had a great general who returned from a long and brutal war. He became our 18th president.

His name was Ulysses, the Latin form of Odysseus.

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u/BigHeadDeadass 8h ago

Yeah well in Latin he was Ulysses, who beat Lee in the Civil War

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u/ImperatorUniversum1 8h ago

My favorite part is Sherman burning down Atlantis

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u/This-is_CMGRI 7h ago

On those piddly medium tanks? No way. It'd be more believable if it was the heavier King Tiger tanks.

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u/beary_neutral 7h ago

You want to know where the expression "Trojan horse" comes from?

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u/BeefistPrime 3h ago

And Odysseus? Came from the Honda Odyssey

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u/YakResident_3069 2h ago

And the Greek word for nobody is a pun on his name because similar sound.

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u/CadeCunninghamLover1 1h ago

Wait so this might be a dumb question but where does the title of The Odyssey come from? Cuz there’s no way that was Homer’s original title, cuz the word didn’t exist at that point

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u/DustyDGAF 9h ago

Nepo baby.