Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated releases for cinephiles, and even the general public who haven't yet made it to the theatre to watch it. To showcase that anticipation, thousands of pirates downloaded several torrents titled "The Odyssey," only to be greeted with a movie that on IMDb is currently rated 1.8/10.
The torrent circulating on numerous popular torrent websites gained attention after it was uploaded under the familiar YTS/YIFY branding and was titled "The Odyssey (2026) 1080p WEBRip x264 5.1 YTS YIFY." The torrent weighed just 1.59GB, and on one torrent website I viewed, the file had 5,800 seeders and 4,597 leechers. However, the movie within the torrent wasn't Christopher Nolan's, but an 86-minute movie directed by Marcel Walz and produced by The Asylum, a studio known for releases called "mockbusters". Notably, Walz's The Odyssey stars Myrom Kingery and was released on July 3, 2026, while Nolan's version was released on July 17, 2026.
Popular Now: PS5 emulator running GTA 5 shows GTA 6 might be possible on PC before official releaseTo add even more confusion, a YTS mirror listing has appeared and includes details from Christopher Nolan's version, including Nolan as the director, a synopsis of the plot, and actors such as Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, and Zendaya. That mirror torrent offers a movie length of 86 minutes, the same as Walz's version of The Odyssey. To spur things along even further, comments have taken to these torrents to encourage users to download them, with some even writing that the acting from Damon, Hathaway, and others was superb.
It appears two adaptations of The Odyssey were released weeks apart, and torrent databases mixed up metadata and file names. What's most concerning is that thousands of users downloaded the file without even checking whether its contents matched the description, which should go without saying, since doing so opens you and your system up to major security vulnerabilities.
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While torrenting comes with the obvious risk of compromising a system, let's hope this torrent fiasco was simply a metadata mix-up and not an intentional malicious act by bad actors who have now infected thousands of PCs by riding the fever-pitch anticipation for Nolan's The Odyssey.
