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Christopher Nolan revealed to Empire magazine that he โshot over 2 million feet of filmโ during the making of โThe Odyssey,โ which filmed for 91 days earlier this year. The movie is Nolanโs adaptation of Homerโs Greek epic and marks his follow-up project to โOppenheimer,โ which won Nolan the Oscars for best picture and director.
โAs a filmmaker, youโre looking for gaps in cinematic culture, things that havenโt been done before,โ Nolan told the publication and why he chose to turn Homerโs โOdysseyโ into a movie. โAnd what I saw is that all of this great mythological cinematic work that I had grown up with โ Ray Harryhausen movies and other things โ Iโd never seen that done with the sort of weight and credibility that an A-budget and a big Hollywood, IMAX production could do.โ
Matt Damon reunites with Nolan after โInterstellarโ and โOppenheimerโ to headline โThe Odysseyโ in the lead role of Odysseus. Tom Holland plays his son, Telemachus. The sprawling ensemble also includes Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyongโo, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron and Jon Bernthal.
In typical Nolan fashion, the filming of โThe Odysseyโ was โpretty primalโ as the cast and crew shot on as many real locations as possible. This included shooting on the open ocean.
ย โItโs vast and terrifying and wonderful and benevolent, as the conditions shift,โ Nolan said. โWe really wanted to capture how hard those journeys would have been for people. And the leap of faith that was being made in an unmapped, uncharted worldโฆ By embracing the physicality of the real world in the making of the film, you do inform the telling of the story in interesting ways. Because youโre confronted on a daily basis by the world pushing back at you.โ
Damon told Empire magazine that โThe Odysseyโ will be โexactly what you want of a summer movie,โ adding: โIt should be the most massively entertaining film. It should feel mythic.โ
โI can say, without hyperbole, that it was the best experience of my career,โ Damon added, noting that he remembered showing up to set one day to see an actual Trojan horse recreated at full scale. โI saw the horse on the beach and I was just like, โFuck.โ It was just so cool.โ
โThe Odysseyโ is set for release on July 17 from Universal Pictures.ย
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