# The Odyssey fans have only just noticed what the 7-month-old poster actually shows

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-odyssey-fans-have-only-just-noticed-what-the-7-month-old-poster-actually-shows/
- Published: 2026-07-20T12:32:14+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-31T01:16:36+00:00
- Original publisher: GamesRadar+
- Original article: https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/fantasy-movies/the-odyssey-fans-have-only-just-noticed-what-the-7-month-old-poster-actually-shows/
- Topics: Gaming

## Key points

- Fans see the first poster as foreshadowing Agamemnon’s underworld scene.
- Agamemnon’s warning changes Odysseus’s return-home strategy.
- The poster was released seven months before the film.

## Summary

Fans of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey have concluded that its first poster foreshadowed a pivotal scene in the film. The image, released seven months earlier, appears to show King Agamemnon entering the realm of the dead, linking its early marketing directly to advice that alters Odysseus’s approach to returning home.

The poster was released on 18 December 2025 and depicts Agamemnon, played by Benny Safdie, facing a smoky landscape among dark figures. In the film, Odysseus, played by Matt Damon, consults dead Trojan War soldiers; Agamemnon warns him that he too was killed after returning home, prompting Odysseus to disguise himself before confronting the suitors in Ithaca.

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