A new television spot for Christopher Nolan‘s much-hyped epic The Odyssey gives viewers a first glimpse at a character played by none other than 10-time Grammy-nominated rapper Travis Scott.
In the minute-long teaser, which aired during Fox’s Sunday broadcast of the AFC Championship matchup between the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos, a familiar scene featuring Jon Bernthal’s Menelaus and Tom Holland’s Telemachus is interrupted by Scott, who silences the mess hall with the booming taps of a staff to warn of an impending war.
“A war, a man, a trick — a trick to break the walls of Troy,” he announces, as the trailer teases images of the great Trojan War. “It burning, screaming to the ground.”
The star-studded adaptation of Homer’s seminal work boasts Matt Damon as the eponymous hero Odysseus, with co-stars Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Charlize Theron, Himesh Patel, Elliott Page, Bill Irwin and Samantha Morton rounding out the cast.
Nolan has previously collaborated with Scott, who contributed the theme song “THE PLAN” to the soundtrack for 2020’s Tenet. The two-time Oscar-winning director told GQ that year that the Utopia musician’s “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.”
Shortly after the release of the cerebral action sci-fi flick starring John David Washington and Pattinson, Scott shared a handwritten note given to him by Nolan, which praised the songwriter’s video for “FRANCHISE” that was being shown ahead of certain Imax screenings for Tenet.
The two also share a passion for cinemas, as Scott recently shared in a profile with Rolling Stone the importance of safeguarding the theatergoing experience. Nolan, now head of the DGA, has been vocal over the years about being anti streaming-only movies.
Though much has been kept under wraps regarding the project, first-look images and teasers have drummed up increasing interest in Nolan’s take on the ancient poem, which traces Odysseus, King of Ithaca, on his dangerous journey home after the Trojan War. To return home to his wife Penelope, he must traverse the treacherous oceans and face off against Grecian mythological giants like Polyphemus the Cyclops, Sirens, the nymph Calypso and the witch goddess Circe.
Universal is set to release the film in theaters in Imax July 17.
