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“I definitely hit the limits of my own stamina,” the director says.
Key Points
- The Odyssey director Christopher Nolan expects his new movie to be his last for a while.
- Nolan found bringing Homer’s epic to life to be ‘difficult.’
- The star-studded cast members were warned about the challenges going into the film.
The next Christopher Nolan movie won’t be here any time soon.
After his latest, The Odyssey, the director will be taking a much-needed break.
During a Friday appearance on Today, Nolan was asked if it would be three years before audiences see his next film.
“Oh, at least,” said Nolan, who released Dunkirk in 2017, three years after Interstellar and three years before Tenet. Oscar Best Picture winner Oppenheimer dropped in 2023. Earlier in his career, he usually released movies every one or two years.
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The Odyssey was especially taxing for the director, producer, and screenwriter of the title, which is based on Homer’s epic.
“I definitely hit the limits of my own stamina and everybody’s stamina, I think,” Nolan said. “I mean, it’s The Odyssey, of course it should be difficult,” he noted. “We’re not doing the job right making a film of The Odyssey if it doesn’t seem difficult.”
And he knew it would be for everyone involved, which he recalled telling leading man Matt Damon early on.
“I have a feeling he didn’t really understand until we got on the boat,” the Dark Knight director said. “It’s not until you get there and you start, you know, hiking up a goat’s path to Cyclops’ cave” that it becomes real.
When that happened, Damon had a “slow, creeping realization” that the project was “not going to be easy.”
Starring an ensemble cast that also includes Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Tom Holland, Travis Scott, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, and more, the much-anticipated action drama is the first movie to be shot entirely on IMAX 70 millimeter film.
For another thing, Hathaway has explained how the writer-director provided depth for the female characters. She used an example of showing the film to a friend.
“She had such an emotional reaction to seeing it,” Hathaway said during Entertainment Weekly’s Around the Table video series. “When I was talking to her about why, she said, ‘I’ve always felt the women get blamed for everything in The Odyssey. The thing that I loved about this movie is you were all given so much dimension. I felt like, each one of you, it was so clear that you had so much more going on.’”
The Odyssey is in theaters now.
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