Watch CBS News Filmmaker Christopher Nolan said he knew filming "The Odyssey," which was shot in six countries, "was going to be hard.""For us, it was just the sheer magnitude of it's 'The Odyssey,' it should be hard. We're going to go out there and we're going to make it as well as we can," Nolan told "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King in an interview that aired on Monday."The Odyssey," which Nolan wrote and directed, pulled in more than $260 million worldwide over the weekend. It features a star-studded cast, including Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya and Tom Holland."It was the hardest movie definitely that I've ever done," Damon told "CBS Mornings" recently. "It felt in a lot of ways more like an expedition than a movie because of the locations we were at. We'd be shooting on top of a mountain. We'd have to hike up the mountain to shoot and that part of it ended up being really fun because it was challenging, for everybody there."The film is also the first commercial feature shot entirely in IMAX.Nolan said he told himself as a teenager that if he ever had the opportunity to direct a Hollywood film, he wanted "to do the whole thing on IMAX.""It immerses you. The image is so sharp, the color is so clear. It's so…
Published: July 20, 2026 3:44 pm
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