‘The Odyssey’ Will Drop an Epic Prologue in IMAX Theaters This Weekend

In the event you’re getting your pre-awards season repair or simply scratching a giant, lavish cinema itch by watching Sinners or One Battle After One other in 70mm IMAX this weekend, you’ll get an additional deal with from what is going to certainly be one in all 2026’s huge contenders: Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey.

In accordance with Variety, theatergoers can feast their eyeballs upon a “almost six-minute” prologue for The Odyssey on December 12 forward of screenings of the Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson re-releases. And that’s not all: “The following weekend, a shorter (however nonetheless full-length) model of The Odyssey trailer will play forward of Avatar: Hearth and Ash showings,” which start December 19.

Will Nolan followers flip up particularly to look at six minutes of The Odyssey? Contemplating the film is so extremely anticipated that the primary tickets went on sale a full 12 months forward of its launch date (July 17, 2026), it appears fairly possible. Sharing a particular look with people who find themselves already seated for 70mm IMAX showings of different films can also be a clever transfer; The Odyssey, in fact, is famously the primary film in historical past to be filmed entirely with IMAX cameras.

Nolan—who beforehand shared a brief, in-theaters-only teaser forward of Jurassic World Rebirth and Superman months in the past—isn’t going to leak recent footage on TikTok or in Fortnite, in different phrases.

The Odyssey adapts the basic Homer epic and stars Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, and Jon Bernthal. Will you be heading to the IMAX theater so as to add six extra minutes onto Sinners (which runs two hours and 18 minutes) or One Battle After One other (two hours and 42 minutes) for that facet quest to historical Greece?

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