Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey will be the first movie shot entirely on IMAX film

Matt Damon plays Odysseus successful the adaptation of the past Homer poem.

When it launches adjacent summer, Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Greek epic The Odyssey volition beryllium historical successful much ways than one: it volition beryllium the archetypal diagnostic movie ever changeable wholly connected IMAX film.

The Odyssey isn’t the archetypal movie to beryllium changeable wholly utilizing IMAX hardware — that grant belongs to Avengers: Infinity War — but it’s the archetypal to bash truthful portion shooting connected film, alternatively than digital. IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond announced the quality during a property luncheon arsenic portion of the Cannes movie festival connected Thursday, revealing that it began arsenic a situation from Nolan.

“Chris called maine up and said, ‘If you tin fig retired however to lick the problems, I volition marque [Odyssey] 100 percent successful IMAX.’ And that’s what we’re doing,” Gelfond told The Hollywood Reporter. “He forced america to rethink that broadside of our business, our movie recorders, our movie cameras.”

The caller cameras are reportedly some lighter and 30 percent quieter. Gelfond says the institution has besides developed caller movie scanning and processing techniques to marque it quicker and easier to ticker footage backmost arsenic it’s shot. For present the caller cameras are exclusive to Nolan, but volition beryllium disposable to different directors aft The Odyssey wraps production.

Nolan has been 1 of IMAX’s biggest proponents ever since helium utilized the cameras to sprout immoderate of The Dark Knight’s enactment scenes successful 2008. He’s utilized IMAX cameras successful each movie since, with 2023’s Oppenheimer the first movie to usage black-and-white 65mm movie successful IMAX, which required some modifying the IMAX cameras and processing caller movie banal with Kodak. That film’s cinematographer, Hoyte van Hoytema, is besides shooting The Odyssey.