Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey(Photo Credit –Facebook)

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Christopher Nolan has spent years reshaping modern cinema, and now he turns toward the oldest tale ever told. His film The Odyssey brings him to the roots of storytelling, where Homer’s poem follows Matt Damon’s Odysseus on his long journey home after the Trojan War. Nolan moves into this world with full force, taking on his 13th film with a scale that reaches far beyond anything he has attempted before.

The Odyssey Surpasses Oppenheimer in Raw Production Scale

Christopher Nolan told Empire that The Odyssey has already passed Oppenheimer in size. He spoke about shooting over two million feet of film and completing a 91-day ocean schedule. The footage adds up to more than 380 hours and surpasses the raw length of Oppenheimer’s 11 miles of IMAX film.

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Much of the movie was created on real ocean locations, where Matt Damon and the rest of the cast faced the natural forces around them. Nolan described the experience as primal, with the crew placed on real waves and real waters as the conditions kept shifting. The director said, “Yeah, it’s vast and terrifying and wonderful and benevolent, as the conditions shift. We 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 world.”