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Christopher Nolan has never been one to sit comfortably within the boundaries of conventional filmmaking, and with The Odyssey, he’s doing more than just stepping out of the box; he’s setting it on fire. At the Cannes Film Festival, a fuss broke out when IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond let slip a detail that changes the game, and that is Nolan’s next epic will be the first feature film shot entirely with IMAX cameras.
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THE ODYSSEY will be the first film in cinema history to be shot entirely in IMAX 70mm, and therefore will have no aspect ratio changes. pic.twitter.com/FvIlYZ8BBH
— Christopher Nolan Art & Updates (@NolanAnalyst) May 15, 2025
Shooting A Whole Film In IMAX Was Impossible Until Now
According to Collider, a delighted Gelfond said, “Chris is going to kill me for saying this, which makes him happy. Which is, about a year before Chris started filming Odyssey, he called me in and said, ‘Rich, I want to make a whole film filmed with IMAX cameras.’”
Now, that sort of move doesn’t come easily. IMAX cameras are notoriously demanding. They are bulky, and using them for an entire film had, until now, remained firmly in the realm of wishful thinking. “As many of you know, you couldn’t do that for a lot of reasons, and he can tell you all of them. But they had to do with time to reload, how you could see dailies, sound. There are lots of issues,” Gelfond added.
