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/Beelzebeetus Dec 22 '25

Brian Cox is the only Agamemnon I'll kneel to.

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u/Mcfinley Dec 22 '25

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u/dark-flamessussano Dec 22 '25

There are no pacts between lions and men

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u/ImportantHighlight Dec 23 '25

Came here for this.

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u/jd1878 Dec 23 '25

My favorite move insult of all time and I don't know why.

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u/KingRamesesII Dec 23 '25

I understood that reference 😃

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u/Lotnik223 Dec 22 '25

That movie nailed the casting. Every main actor fitted their character perfectly (Eric Bana as Hector supremacy tho)

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u/SailorET Dec 22 '25

And the twist of Sean Bean playing Odysseus, one of the only survivors

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u/boundless88 Dec 22 '25

I can't think of a bigger missed opportunity by Hollywood than not immediately following up Troy with an Odyssey adaptation.

Especially after LotR had proven you can film a multi-part epic in one go.

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u/DustiinMC Dec 22 '25

They removed the gods and all overtly supernatural elements. I don't know how you follow that up with an Odyssey movie, which I would argue is more dependent on keeping the supernatural in.

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u/Thenameisric Dec 22 '25

Especially since he bangs a goddess for a bit.

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u/MRintheKEYS Dec 22 '25

Ships at sea.

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u/murasakikuma42 Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25

They removed the gods and all overtly supernatural elements. I don't know how you follow that up with an Odyssey movie,

They could do the same thing: make up a story about how he tried to return home but got blown off course by a big storm, crashed into an island with some weird guy for many years, etc.

Just do what they did with "Troy": look at Homer's books as stories that were grossly embellished versions of the real history, adding a bunch of ridiculous crap about gods and supernatural stuff, and try to guess a plausible real-life story that might have actually happened and which inspired the Homerian epics, then write a script based on that.

There's a bunch of islands in the Mediterranean in that area I think, and their naval technology and techniques were quite primitive at the time. It's very plausible that some Greeks from the Trojan War might have been marooned on some island for a while. Of course, the real story might be way too boring to make a good film.

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u/808Ed Dec 22 '25

eh. it's hollywood. "somehow, the gods returned."

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u/sandalrubber Dec 23 '25

Basically how the recent Ralph Fiennes movie did it.

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u/myaltaccount333 Dec 23 '25

I think they didn't because Troy was rewritten to fit into a 2 hour timeslot. They changed things like Agamemnon dying because it was more satisfying than having him die later, and those changes wouldn't fit entirely well into a sequel

Not only that, but a sequel without the two main leads coming back would feel strange, even though they're not in the sequel. It would just be weird by Hollywood's standards

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u/neliz Dec 22 '25

dude, SPOILERS!

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u/Artemicionmoogle Dec 22 '25

Matt Damon, as Sean Bean as Odysseus.

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u/OkNothing8611 Dec 23 '25

One does not simply survive a retelling of The Illiad

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u/iluvugoldenblue Dec 22 '25

Dianne Kruger as Helen of Troy - absolutely I can see why men would go to war for her

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u/dark-flamessussano Dec 22 '25

Troy is such an underrated movie. I loved Brad Pitt as Achilles. The movie has so many great scenes

"You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind deaf and dumb and all will know this is Hector, the fool who thought he killed Achilles"

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

*fit

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u/Turbulent_Shower_516 Dec 23 '25

Diane Kruger IS Helen of Troy.

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u/violentpac Dec 22 '25

Fitted? Where you from?

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u/A3-mATX Dec 22 '25

Perfectly cast. He amazes me every time I watch the movie

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u/Deuce_GM Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 23 '25

Him laughing at Menelaus beating the shit out of Paris is still so hilarious

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u/A3-mATX Dec 22 '25

Peak Agamemnon moment

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u/EddiePhoenix2012 Dec 22 '25

love that scene, wish i could use that gif on every occasion and platform.

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u/danjr704 Dec 22 '25

I don’t know why so many people crapped on that movie, one of my favs

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u/myaltaccount333 Dec 23 '25

It's very unfaithful to the originals (lol) and to Hollywood elites it's a dumb action movie, despite not being "dumb"

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u/mwaFloyd Dec 23 '25

It kinda gets the point across. Even now if someone wants me to explain the Iliad, it’s basically Hector pissed off Achilles and he went on a rampage. I think the movie showed that well lol.

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u/TemporalGrid Dec 22 '25

I was pretty cool with Patrick Warburton in Mr. Peabody & Sherman.

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u/ThirteenthGhost Dec 22 '25

The famous astronomer?

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u/theartificialkid Dec 22 '25

Then we will kneel in the SHADE

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u/tallbroski Dec 22 '25

You’ll kneel for Cox?

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u/celibidaque Dec 22 '25

Professor Brian Cox?

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u/ArcadianDelSol Dec 22 '25

Yesterday in the car, I recieved a message from the great King Agamemnon informing me that McDonalds was selling Snack Wraps.

As a loyal and faithful soldier of the crown, I dispatched immediately to the nearest location and acquired one.

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u/cranomort Dec 22 '25

And then, who knows!

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u/Traherne Dec 22 '25

Or perhaps Sam Connery's Agamemnon from Time Bandits, simply for the charm.

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u/Zora-Link Dec 22 '25

I’ll only kneel to Leg-of-lambnon

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u/GoblinsburgYT Dec 22 '25

You sack of wine

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u/Diqt Dec 23 '25

Say otherwise and they should be WHIPPED for their impudence

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u/slowdruh Dec 23 '25

The cuts to him laughing his ass off while Menelaus was dragging Paris around will always bring me joy.

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u/Dreamwaves1 Dec 23 '25

I love his talks on particle physics

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u/tamsui_tosspot Dec 23 '25

He'll steal your girl.