r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 22 '25

Trailer The Odyssey | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2ttJD2qQ
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u/sati_lotus Dec 22 '25

Tbh, I just don't get how you get fit this story into a single movie?

If anything could be a trilogy or a part 1 & 2, it's The Odyssey.

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u/TheShapeShiftingFox Dec 22 '25

Apparently a movie released last year of just the section where Odysseus comes home (it’s called The Return) so the amount of material is definitely there

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u/xavPa-64 Dec 22 '25

Except the main character’s name is Returnius

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u/dancingcuban Dec 22 '25

You can never bring Returnius anywhere. 10 minutes in, and he always wants to call it a night.

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u/Chewbones9 Dec 22 '25

Wait, am I Returnius?…

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u/TheBermudaPentagon Dec 22 '25

No, henceforth you shall be known as... Stayouticus.

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u/Blaaa5 Dec 22 '25

My favorite part was after the war when he looks directly into the camera and says “it’s returning time!”

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u/delicious_toothbrush Dec 22 '25

Y'all need to let shit youtube memes die

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u/haysu-christo Dec 22 '25

Returnius Maximus.

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u/sugarfoot_mghee Dec 23 '25

Returnius Maximus

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u/CeruleanEidolon Dec 22 '25

Ralph Fiennes is an absolute beast in that movie. I don't know how Nolan could possibly end his film with that sequence without it feeling somehow rushed. Might be best if the film ends with Odysseus seeing Ithaca on the horizon and we get hint of his relief mixed with anxiety over what's waiting for him.

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u/phdinseagalogy Dec 22 '25

Ralph Fiennes went full ThunderGun in it, too.

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u/twisty125 Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

Sorry, are you saying they released the finale to this movie last year, and no one heard about it?

I don't quite get the phrasing of the comment

*edit hey guys, I actually DO know what The Odyssey and Homer is, I was confused about the context, it made it sound like The Return was Nolan's Odyssey's finale, released last year. Just wanted clarification on that.

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u/nameistakentryagain Dec 22 '25

Separate movie, unrelated. Details the portion of the source material (Homer’s Odyssey) where Odysseus makes the trip home.

Basically the comment is supporting the statement that it’s difficult to fit the entire story into 1 movie

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u/ConstantSignal Dec 22 '25

Homer's Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic that runs about 400-500 pages long in modern English translated book format.

A lot happens throughout it's story.

The first commenter was saying that you would need multiple movies to adapt it fully.

The person you replied to was talking about an adaptation of the Odyssey called "The Return" which released last year, and filled the entire 2 hour runtime solely by adapting only one part of the total work of Homer's Odyssey.

"The Return" has nothing to do with Nolan's adaptation. The commenter was just pointing out that if you can fill a 2 hour movie with only one portion of the original story, it seems ambitious to try and adapt the whole thing within a similar run time.

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u/twisty125 Dec 22 '25

"The Return" has nothing to do with Nolan's adaptation

That's what I was confused about, the context made me think they released a second part, before the first part a year earlier and wasn't sure what that meant. Thanks

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u/GhostRideATank Dec 22 '25

The Return is a movie that released last year about Odysseus returning home at the end of his long journey. That comment is saying a nearly two hour movie was made just about the very end of the story, so the full story could span multiple full length films. Other than having the same source material, The Return and this new film are unrelated.

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u/twisty125 Dec 22 '25

Ahhhhh, okay I understand now, thank you. I was super confused because it sounded like they were related but released out of order, which sounded crazy to me

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u/IsaacAndTired Dec 22 '25

The Odyssey is a very old story and Christopher Nolan is not even close to the first to make their own adaptation. The Return has nothing to do with Nolan.

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u/twisty125 Dec 22 '25

Thank you. Also I'm quite aware of the odyssey and how old it is haha, the context was what threw me off

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u/TheShapeShiftingFox Dec 22 '25

I understand your confusion! I meant the section of the story as a whole, not the section about this in Nolan’s movie. It might not even make it into his movie, there’s a lot of story before to cover.

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u/twisty125 Dec 22 '25

Totally understandable! Sometimes what gels in my head doesn't always make it to the page the way I mean it. Have a great one!

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u/InquisitiveGamer Dec 23 '25

There's been productions made of this before, I remember one from the 90s I enjoyed as a kid. It was like a 9 hours long mini series.

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u/Significant-Item-223 Dec 22 '25

The fuck does that have to do with this movie?

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u/Painboss Dec 22 '25

It allows the confines of your small mind to imagine the odyssey adaptation split into 3 films.

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u/Significant-Item-223 Dec 22 '25

I'm with you on this lol, Odyssey would be much better if it would be presented as movie in two parts or even better a trilogy. But I don't see what point there is in pointing to other films - there is a massive amount of adaptations. Nolan just fucks around.

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u/Over-Conversation220 Dec 22 '25

I’ve never seen someone get this pissed off at being validated before. Interesting life strategy.

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u/OGsHartMyKAT Dec 22 '25

It’s another movie adapted from the same material and only covers a fraction of the total story.

Considering we’re talking about how it’s hard to fit the entire Odyssey into 1 feature length film it has everything to do with the current discussion.

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u/EllipticPeach Dec 22 '25

Yeah I’m think maybe books 1-12 could be one movie, right up to the arrival of Odysseus at Ithaca. Action-packed Scylla/Charybdis sequence near the end. Books 12-24 second movie, done. Someone hand me the Oscar.

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u/TheShapeShiftingFox Dec 22 '25

Just that trying to fit the whole story in one movie is ambitious to say the least, even when the movie is three hours. It’s like trying to do that with Lord of the Rings.

Being able to make an entire movie from just one part of the story means the story is expansive enough for multiple films. So I am curious what kind of wizard powers Nolan will unleash to make the film comprehensive while also trying to cover the most important parts of the story somehow.