Now that The Odyssey has hit the big screen, fans have figured out that the film's first poster was actually hiding a huge plot point.
Warning, the following contains spoilers for The Odyssey, so turn back now if you haven't seen it yet, but make sure to read our spoiler-free The Odyssey review first.
On December 18, 2025, the first poster for The Odyssey was released online, showing the back of a soldier, who we now know is the King of Mycenae, Agamemnon, wearing a helmet with gold hardware resembling a spinal cord. The figure is looking out at a smoky landscape at dusk as many dark figures stand in front of him. However, after seeing the movie, fans have realised which scene the poster is from.
A film by Christopher Nolan shot entirely with IMAX film cameras. Experience The Odyssey prologue in IMAX before Avatar: Fire and Ash. pic.twitter.com/uGImf8sbFvDecember 18, 2025
"This poster looks an awful lot like Agamemnon entering hell," said one fan on Twitter, and Another watcher echoed, "The poster for #TheOdyssey is interesting because it could be interpreted a couple of ways - it’s King Agamemnon’s arrival in Hades or it’s Agamemnon at the back of the bunch as Odysseus calls on the dead - he sort of glides to the front of the pack to give his testimony."
We get a glimpse of the soldiers who had fallen during and after the Trojan War partway through the movie, when Matt Damon's Odysseus contacts the dead for advice on how to make it home alive. The dead crawl out of the ground, presumably from hell, covered in dirt, with their armour blackened and seemingly burned. After many of the dead complain to Odysseus about him not giving them a proper burial, Agamemnon comes to the front of the crowd.
The Greek king, played by Benny Safdie, warns Odysseus not to return home and expect to be welcomed with open arms, as when Agamemnon landed back in his home of Mycenae, he was murdered by his wife for killing their daughter before departing for the war. This leads Odysseus to approach his return home with care and disguise himself as a beggar, as if he were to walk back into his Ithaca palace as is, the suitors would have cut him down.
With this in mind, it is interesting that the movie's very first poster was taken from a scene that changes the course of Odysseus' fate.
The Odyssey is out in cinemas now. For more, check out our beginner's guide to The Odyssey, and find out where the new movie places in our ranking of the best Christopher Nolan movies.
