In theaters July 17, the film features Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya, and Charlize Theron
The star-studded cast for Christopher Nolan‘s epic The Odyssey keeps growing. A new trailer for the film, heading to theaters on July 17, revealed an unexpected cast member: Grammy Award-nominated and multiplatinum-selling rapper Travis Scott.
The preview premiered on Fox during the NFL AFC Championship game on Sunday evening while the New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos’s face-off was on pause. Scott appears about 20 seconds into the minute-long trailer, preaching to a room full of soldiers about a war, a man, and a trick to break the walls of Troy. “Burning,” he says. “Screaming to the ground.”
The Odyssey stars Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya, and Charlize Theron. It marks Nolan’s first film since 2023’s Oppenheimer. The adaptation of Homer’s Greek epic was shot entirely with IMAX cameras. Scott, who previously appeared in acting roles in the experimental action film Aggro Dr1ft in 2023 and took a voice role in Trolls: Holiday in Harmony, might not have a resume as extensive as the other actors in The Odyssey. That hasn’t deterred his interest.
“These are just different aspects that I was intrigued and I was into, to be honest,” Scott told Rolling Stone about his varied creative interests in his recent cover story. “I’m just into all things creative. I might not be the best in everything. That’s how I can respect working with other people in certain fields that I’m not so good in.”
Scott previously collaborated with Nolan, on a musical front, on Tenet, released in 2020. The rapper penned “The Plan” and performed the track, which appears during the closing credits of the film. That year, the director told GQ, “His voice became the final piece of a yearlong puzzle. His insights into the musical and narrative mechanism [composer] Ludwig Göransson and I were building were immediate, insightful and profound.”
Universal Pictures has yet to officially release the latest trailer for The Odyssey. Most versions uploaded on social media have already been removed due to copyright violations.
