Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Is Doing Something No Film Has Done Before

Christopher Nolan has done it again. He was one of the first Hollywood filmmakers to have scenes from his films expand on IMAX screens and now he’s finally answering the question anyone who saw The Dark Knight, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Dune: Part Two, Sinners, Oppenheimer, or dozens of other movies in IMAX has thought: “Why isn’t the whole movie like this?” Well, because up until now, it was impossible. The cameras were too big and too loud to film an entire Hollywood movie like that. It was a privilege held for select action sequences, concert films, or nature documentaries without dialogue. But for his new film, The Odyssey, Nolan asked IMAX to make smaller, quieter cameras capable of capturing footage that would screen in that massive, signature 1.43:1 aspect ratio and the company did just that. So, Nolan has been filming The Odyssey entirely with IMAX film cameras, making it the first Hollywood blockbuster ever to do so. “Chris called me up and said If you can figure ... Read full article.