Sir Christopher Nolan used “over two million feet of film” to shoot The Odyssey.

The 2026 fantasy movie will adapt Homer’s Greek epic and is the 55-year-old director’s first project since Oppenheimer in 2023, and Nolan has now revealed the lengths he went to to bring the story’s grand scale to life.

During an interview with Empire magazine, he said: “I’ve been out on it for the last four months. 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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