The Odyssey: new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s classical Greek epic released online

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Matt Damon as Odysseus with warriors in a scene from The Odyssey
War is over … Jimmy Gonzales as Cepheus, Matt Damon as Odysseus and Himesh Patel as Eurylochus in a scene from The Odyssey. Photograph: Melinda Sue Gordon/AP

Trailer offers glimpses of Matt Damon as mythological hero Odysseus, Tom Holland as his son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as his wife, Penelope

The new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey has been released.

Starring Matt Damon as mythological hero Odysseus, the epic film retells the story of Odysseus’ 10-year voyage back to his homeland of Ithaca after the Greek victory at the siege of Troy.

The trailer offers snippets of the main players, including Damon, Tom Holland as Odysseus’s son Telemachus, Anne Hathaway as Odysseus’s wife, Penelope, and Robert Pattinson as Antinous, one of the crowd of suitors vying to marry Penelope.

There are also brief glimpses of some of the mythological threats Odysseus encounters, including a whirlpool, the Cyclops and Charlize Theron as the nymph Calypso.

In July a cinema-only trailer for the reportedly $250m (£184m) budget production was leaked online, and in November Nolan revealed he had shot more than 2m feet of film for The Odyssey, which has been filmed entirely on large-format Imax cameras.

The Odyssey is due for release on 16 July in Australia and 17 July in the UK and US.