After redefining superheroes, bending time, and turning the story of mankind’s most destructive invention into a nearly billion-dollar summer blockbuster, Sir Christopher Nolan’s next act takes him all the way back — to the dawn of storytelling itself. His 13th film, The Odyssey , is a sweeping adaptation of Homer’s foundational Greek poem, following Matt Damon’s Odysseus on his long, perilous journey home after the Trojan War. And true to form, Nolan is going epic — literally and physically.

Speaking with Empire , Nolan revealed that The Odyssey has already outstripped Oppenheimer in sheer production scale. “We shot over two million feet of film ,” he said, laughing about the grueling 91-day ocean shoot. That’s over 380 hours of footage — and longer, in raw length,

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