New Christopher Nolan Video Reveals Travis Scott’s Unexpected Role in The Odyssey
Travis Scott crashes Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey in a new TV spot aired during the AFC Championship, teasing a surprising role that has fans scrambling for answers.
Christopher Nolan slipped a new The Odyssey TV spot into Sunday football, and the cameo that had everyone doing a double take was Travis Scott, on a table, delivering a monologue. Yes, that Travis Scott, speaking in a Nolan epic. Not exactly where I expected to see him either.
What the new spot shows
Universal Pictures dropped the minute-ish teaser during the NFL broadcast of the AFC Championship game between the New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos. The clip opens on Holland's Telemachus asking Jon Bernthal's Menelaus what he actually knows about Telemachus's father, Odysseus, who is played by Matt Damon.
Cut to a mess hall where Scott's character — unnamed for now — hops up on a table and tells the room the legend of Odysseus like a campfire story with a body count. As he talks, the spot flashes to the Trojan horse sequence, with Odysseus and his crew slipping inside Troy under cover of night.
"A war, a man, a trick. A trick to break the walls of Troy," Scott's character says. "It burning, screaming to the ground."
And after the chaos, Damon-as-Odysseus closes it out with: "Let's go home."
Why Travis Scott showing up here matters
For those keeping score, Scott and Nolan have worked together before — he did the theme song, The Plan, for Tenet — but this is a much bigger swing: an actual speaking role in a massive studio release. It is, by all accounts, Scott's biggest acting turn to date. His last on-screen appearance was in Harmony Korine's experimental action detour Aggro Dr1ft. Going from that neon fever dream to Nolan's mythic war-and-wander epic is... quite a pivot.
What Nolan is tackling this time
The Odyssey is exactly what it sounds like: Nolan's take on Homer's saga of Odysseus fighting his way back home after the Trojan War. Expect run-ins with monsters and gods — the spot nods to the Trojan horse, and the film will bring in staples like sirens and a cyclops along the way.
Who is playing who
- Matt Damon as Odysseus
- Holland as Telemachus
- Jon Bernthal as Menelaus
- Anne Hathaway as Penelope
- Robert Pattinson as Antinous
- Zendaya as Athena
- Benny Safdie as Agamemnon
- John Leguizamo as Eumaeus
- Himesh Patel as Eurylochus
- Mia Goth as Melantho
- Charlize Theron as Circe
- Lupita Nyong'o in a role they are keeping under wraps
- Travis Scott as an unnamed character
Behind the camera and the release plan
Nolan writes and directs, his first feature since the Oscar-winning Oppenheimer. He is producing with his longtime partner Emma Thomas. The A-team is back behind the scenes too, with Hoyte van Hoytema shooting and Ludwig Göransson composing the score.
Universal is releasing The Odyssey in theaters and in IMAX on July 17, 2026.