Christopher Nolan is going all out for The Odyssey .

The Oscar winner opened up about the making of his upcoming film adaptation of Homer ‘s epic poem in a recent interview with Empire .

Nolan said he “shot over two million feet of film” over the course of The Odyssey ‘s 91-day shoot, noting that most of that took place in the ocean.

“It’s pretty primal! I’ve been out on it for the last four months,” Nolan said. “We got the cast who play the crew of Odysseus’ ship out there on the real waves, in the real places. And yeah, it’s vast and terrifying and wonderful and benevolent, as the conditions shift. We really wanted to capture how hard those journeys would have been for people. And the leap of faith that was being made in an unmapped, uncharted world.”

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