Of Course The Odyssey is Joining Fortnite — And Matt Damon is a Skin

Fresh from his epic travel location aft the Trojan War, Matt Damon's Odysseus has 1 much travel planned: riding the conflict autobus into Fortnite.

That's right, the leader of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey volition onshore successful Epic Games' conflict royale point store tomorrow, Thursday, July 16, pursuing the game's adjacent large update. That's the aforesaid 1 that's adding England fable David Beckham, arsenic good arsenic a slew of Batman characters successful swimsuits.

Epic Games has shown disconnected footage of Odysseus' tegument successful enactment — and yes, it's intelligibly based connected the likeness of Matt Damon.

Fortnite leaker ShiinaBR has besides posted an representation of a 2nd The Odyssey skin, that of the hulking Agamemnon, played by Benny Safdie successful the movie.

If you fancy trying your luck astatine getting Odysseus for free, there's a emblematic in-game tourney to effort and bash so. For the immense bulk of players, however, a low-ranking introduction present volition astatine slightest grant you an Odyssey-themed loading screen.

It's hard to ideate Homer (the poet, not the Simpson) anticipating that anyone from his epic ode would get turned into a Fortnite skin. Then again, there's plentifulness of that going astir — specified arsenic the audio mentation of the poem work by an AI reproduction of Michael Caine's voice, oregon the wholly AI-generated Odyssey movie that has been labelled arsenic "Slopbuster" alternatively than a blockbuster.

All 2 hours and 53 minutes of The Odyssey acceptable sail successful theaters aboriginal this week connected July 17, 2026. In summation to its star-studded cast, fans tin expect a movie that Nolan says helium crafted to "do away" with "cultural prejudices" astir the past world. It volition besides diagnostic an tremendous applicable Cyclops. Now wherefore isn't that joining Fortnite too?

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