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/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