Christopher Nolan revealed to Empire magazine that he “shot over 2 million feet of film” during the making of “ The Odyssey ,” which filmed for 91 days earlier this year. The movie is Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s Greek epic and marks his follow-up project to “Oppenheimer,” which won Nolan the Oscars for best picture and director.

“As a filmmaker, you’re looking for gaps in cinematic culture, things that haven’t been done before,” Nolan told the publication about why he chose to turn Homer’s “Odyssey” into a movie. “And what I saw is that all of this great mythological cinematic work that I had grown up with – Ray Harryhausen movies and other things – I’d never seen that done with the sort of weight and credibility that an A-budget and a big Hollywood, IMAX production could do.”

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