‘The Odyssey’ world premiere brings Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Matt Damon and more to London’s Leicester Square

The world premiere of Christopher Nolan’s latest film adaptation of Homer’s epic, “The Odyssey,” brought a lineup of international film stars to London’s Leicester Square on Monday, July 6, with a red-carpet event hosted at the Odeon Luxe venue. Page Six reported on the event’s photo call, featuring attendees photographed on the carpet ahead of the film’s wider release.

According to Deadline’s coverage of the premiere, the screening event in Leicester Square marked the latest stop in a rollout that has included major casting appearances and public-facing press moments. Deadline identified Nolan as appearing alongside several of the film’s leading cast members during the London premiere festivities.

Deadline’s gallery described the cast attendance as including Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Zendaya, Elliot Page, Jon Bernthal, Himesh Patel, John Leguizamo, Mia Goth, Benny Safdie and Samantha Morton, among others. Deadline also characterized the premiere as being centered on Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s story.

“The Odyssey” is set to open in theaters and in IMAX globally on July 17, Deadline reported. The film’s distribution is listed by Deadline as Universal Pictures, with production credited to Emma Thomas and Nolan through their company Syncopy. The premiere’s public schedule in London positions the event as a promotional bridge to that release date.

In Deadline’s description of the film’s plot, the story begins years after the Trojan War, with most Greek heroes returned home, and with Odysseus lost at sea for 10 years. It says Odysseus’s absence leaves his palace in Ithaca overrun by suitors competing for Penelope while Telemachus faces the challenge of asserting himself against them.

For the premiere day in London, the event functioned as both a star-facing ceremony and a public cultural moment tied to the studio release calendar. As coverage from Page Six indicated, the focus of the red carpet gallery was the photographed arrival and appearance of the cast and supporters at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on July 6.

The next public milestone after the London premiere is the July 17 theatrical and IMAX opening, where the film will move from festival and press visibility into mainstream distribution. With Universal Pictures named as the distributor and July 17 as the global release date, audiences and exhibitors are being directed to that timeline rather than further premiere-related events.