Tips on how to catch the primary six minutes of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’

There are, tragically, seven months standing between audiences and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. However if you cannot wait that lengthy to get your dose of Nolan, you are in luck: You’ll be able to catch the primary six minutes of the historic epic in theaters this month.

The prologue is displaying forward of the IMAX 70mm re-releases of two of this yr’s greatest awards contenders: Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After One other. These re-releases, which started Friday, will run for per week.

Solely 10 theaters on this planet — eight in the USA, one in Canada, and one in the UK — present movies in IMAX 70mm, which, in accordance with Selection, is Nolan’s most popular format for the movie. That is sensible, on condition that The Odyssey would be the first blockbuster shot solely on IMAX movie cameras.

Nonetheless, you may nonetheless have an opportunity to see The Odyssey‘s prologue even in case you do not dwell close to a theater with IMAX 70mm capabilities. Beginning Dec. 19, The Odyssey‘s prologue will play in entrance of all IMAX screenings of James Cameron’s Avatar: Fireplace and Ash, not simply these in 70mm.

The non-IMAX Avatar: Fireplace and Ash screenings might be displaying a full-length trailer for The Odyssey, however not your entire prologue.

What’s within the prologue for The Odyssey?

If you cannot make it to any of those screenings however nonetheless wish to know what goes down in The Odyssey‘s prologue, we have got you coated. In response to retailers like Selection and World of Reel, the prologue recreates the top of the Trojan struggle, when the Greek forces snuck into the town of Troy inside a large wood horse disguised as a peace providing. The architect of that scheme? None aside from Odysseus (Matt Damon).

Nolan invitations viewers into Odysseus and his troopers’ tense wait contained in the Trojan Horse. Then, as soon as they depart the horse, Nolan unleashes a full-scale battle, full with Damon taking pictures his enemies with a bow and arrow.

The sequence is framed as a narrative handed from Sparta’s King Menelaus (Jon Bernthal) to Odysseus’ son Telemachus (Tom Holland). Different members of The Odyssey‘s star-studded forged embrace Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, and Mia Goth, though none present up within the prologue. However you already know what does seem? An animatronic cyclops. From guarantees of Nolan battles to sensible monster results, July cannot come quickly sufficient.

The Odyssey hits theater July 18.