Audiences got their first glimpse of Matt Damon in action as Odysseus in the first full trailer for Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey.”

The star-packed trailer offers a look at the epic, 10-year journey Odysseus takes to return home to his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) and son Telemachus (Tom Holland) after the Trojan War. 

The trailer opens with Charlize Theron’s Calypso speaking to Odysseus. 

“Tell me what you remember,” she says. 

“A wife,” he replies. “A son.”

“And then what?” she asks.

“We won the war. Help me go home,” he says. 

As Odysseus encounters threat after threat and monster after monster during his perilous journey, Penelope must deal with suitors seeking to lay claim to her and her husband’s kingdom of Ithaca. 

The film also stars Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Himesh Patel, Lupita Nyong’o, Will Yun Lee, Mia Goth, Samantha Morton and Elliot Page. 

It is set to hit theaters July 17.

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