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Despite utilizing much than 2 cardinal feet of movie to bring Homer’s The Odyssey to nan large screen, writer/director Christopher Nolan is keeping nan cinematic acquisition nether 3 hours.
The 2x Oscar victor precocious revealed that his upcoming film, which films July 17 successful Imax, has a “shorter” runtime than his 2023 epic Oppenheimer, which clocked successful astatine 180 minutes.
“It’s an epic film, arsenic nan taxable matter demands,” he explained to nan Associated Press. “But it is shorter.”
Nolan added, “There’s a monolithic magnitude of pressure. Anyone taking connected The Odyssey is taking connected nan hopes and dreams of group for epic movies everyplace and that comes pinch a immense responsibility. What I learned from [making The Dark Knight trilogy] is that what group want from a movie astir a beloved story, a beloved group of characters, is they want a beardown and sincere interpretation. They want to cognize that a filmmaker has gone to nan mat for it. I really tried to make nan champion movie possible.”
Last November, Nolan revealed he “shot complete 2 cardinal feet of film” during nan 91-day shoot, overmuch of which was really astatine oversea to seizure nan expansive standard of Homer’s ancient Greek epic.
“It’s beautiful primal! I’ve been retired connected it for nan past 4 months,” he told Empire. “We sewage nan formed who play nan unit of Odysseus’ vessel retired location connected nan existent waves, successful nan existent places. And yeah, it’s immense and terrifying and awesome and benevolent, arsenic nan conditions shift. We really wanted to seizure really difficult those journeys would person been for people. And nan leap of religion that was being made successful an unmapped, uncharted world.”
An adjustment of 1 of nan first stories successful quality history, The Odyssey follows Odysseus (Matt Damon) done nan unthinkable tests and mythical encounters he faces connected his decade-long travel location to woman Penelope aft nan Trojan War.
The Odyssey besides stars Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Elliot Page, Himesh Patel, Bill Irwin, Samantha Morton, Jesse Garcia, Will Yun Lee, Rafi Gavron, Shiloh Fernandez, Mia Goth and more.
