Fans know that Tom Holland and Matt Damon are going to lead Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, but a lot of fans still don’t know who’s playing who. As it turns out, Damon is going to be playing the titular character, and it’s been revealed with the first look of him in costume.
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Matt Damon is Odysseus. A film by Christopher Nolan, #TheOdysseyMovie is in theaters July 17, 2026. pic.twitter.com/7a5YbfqVfG
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With reports weeks earlier saying that Holland was supposed to be the lead of the movie, some are guessing that he’s going to play the part of Telemachus, Odysseus’ son. In the story, Telemachus journeys to Pylos and Sparta looking for his father, only to come back to Ithaca to realize that Odysseus had returned.
Telemachus is considered to be the secondary protagonist of the Odyssey, and his journeys while on the search for his father have been called the Telemachy traditionally.
With Holland not having a hit besides Spider-Man, a lot of fans thought a team-up with Christopher Nolan of all people could help Holland’s status as a leading man. As for Damon, everyone knows that he’s a solid actor, but he has been criticized for not doing so well on period movies—especially one that is based on a story set hundreds of years ago.
Then again, I’m always up any big swing, and it looks like Nolan is going to be doing just that with this massive adaptation of the action-adventure story that defined modern storytelling in general.
Hopefully we get a first look at a trailer before the year ends.
Catch The Odyssey when it comes to cinemas on July 17, 2026.
