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Universal has offered a caller look astatine The Odyssey, their Imax arena movie from Christopher Nolan, based connected nan ancient Greek epic poem from Homer, pinch Nolan himself successful attendance to tout nan project.
We’ve already seen a trailer unveiled for nan film. But successful Las Vegas this afternoon, we sewage a look astatine footage of Matt Damon’s Odysseus, king of Ithaca, speaking pinch Calypso (Charlize Theron), a nymph who’s kept him hostage connected her land for 7 years aft washing ashore post-Trojan War.
“How agelong person I been here, Calypso?” He asks. “I don’t retrieve thing earlier Troy. Did I person a wife, children, possibly a son? If I had a son, really aged would he beryllium now?”
We trim to his son, Tom Holland’s Telemachus, who is told nan communicative of nan Greeks’ ambush connected a Trojan foothold via nan Trojan equine by Jon Bernthal’s Menelaus.
After nan Trojans propulsion nan Trojan equine successful from nan water and propulsion it by cables done nan sand, each nan measurement into their castle, they guidelines it up successful nan halfway of nan fortress. By night, Menelaus, Odysseus and their chap Greek soldiers look to ambush it and triumph nan 10-year Trojan War.
Accepting a opinionated ovation erstwhile he stepped connected shape coming successful Las Vegas, Nolan explained his desire to show this story, saying that it’s 1 “that has fascinated procreation aft procreation for 3,000 years. It’s not a story, it’s the story.”
He wanted to beryllium nan one, he explained, to prehend “the breathtaking opportunity of being capable to bring this to a modern cinema audience.”
Nolan pointed to Holland, Damon, and Anne Hathaway’s Penelope, woman of Odysseus, arsenic nan bosom of nan story, which is astir “family” and “homecoming.”
Of course, fixed Nolan’s long-time fascination pinch large-scale arena cinema, he wanted to show this communicative successful nan astir immersive measurement possible. “The long-held dream,” he said, was to fig retired a measurement to movie an full task connected Imax for nan first time, shooting speech scenes nan aforesaid measurement he would an action sequence, alternatively than shifting facet rations, arsenic he has for galore years.
Undoubtedly, doing truthful wasn’t easy. He admitted that The Odyssey was “an absolute nightmare to film,” albeit “in each nan correct ways,” adding, “we had an astonishing clip doing it.” And that now, nan movie is “almost finished.”
First announced successful December 2024, Nolan’s The Odyssey watches arsenic Damon’s Odysseus takes a agelong and vulnerable voyage location aft nan Trojan War, pinch an oculus toward seeing his family again. Others successful nan star-studded formed see Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Benny Safdie, Jon Bernthal, Cosmo Jarvis, Michael Vlamis and Iddo Goldberg.
Nolan came to nan movie pursuing his collaboration pinch Universal connected Oppenheimer, which was nominated for 13 Academy Awards and won seven, including Best Picture and Best Director. He directed from his ain book and produced alongside his longtime collaborator and wife, Emma Thomas.
The movie is group to unfastened successful Imax connected July 17.
