Sir Christopher Nolan introduced new footage from his upcoming blockbuster adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey at CinemaCon and I used to be fortunate sufficient to witness it in all its historical world glory.
Christopher Nolan confesses The Odyssey ‘has been an absolute nightmare’ (Picture: UNIVERSAL)
Day 3 of CinemaCon has been wild on the celeb appearances entrance, from Michael B Jordan and Ryan Gosling to Hugh Jackman and Jack Black.
In the meantime, through the Common presentation, we had been handled not solely to Steven Spielberg but additionally to Sir Christopher Nolan.
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The Oscar-winning director kicked off the present (after Snoop Dogg introduced his personal biopic) to tease The Odyssey, the primary movie ever to be shot completely with IMAX cameras.
Met with a standing ovation in The Dolby Colosseum of Caesars Palace, Nolan mentioned he selected to adapt Homer’s epic as a result of “it’s not a narrative, it’s the story” about Matt Damon’s Odysseus, King of Ithaca, who spends 20 years travelling dwelling to his spouse.
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Sir Christopher Nolan at CinemaCon final night time (Picture: GETTY)
Nolan confessed: “This movie has been an absolute nightmare, I’ll be the primary to say, however in all the appropriate methods. [Matt] was unbelievable. He was there on the boats, up the mountains, within the caves, within the beating sunshine, sideways rain, in so many various locations that we went all around the world.” The Odyssey has been a globe-trotting shoot, with scenes captured in Morocco, Iceland, Italy, Greece and Scotland. Tenaciously powering by the weather was all a part of the method, after all, with the filmmaker noting, “It’s meant to be tough, that’s the character of the story.”
Nolan then handled us to a couple minutes of the movie. A lot of it was beforehand screened in cinemas pri,or to Avatar: Hearth and Water final Christmas, together with the Computer virus flashback. However we had been launched to Charlize Theron’s Calypso, who seduces the closely bearded Damon’s Odysseus sporting a thick American accent. It’s all very intense and fantastically shot, however what else would we anticipate from the best residing movie director?
The Odyssey hits UK cinemas on July 17, 2026.
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