When I think of Christopher Nolan, I picture the serious, Oscar-winning director who made Oppenheimer and one of the best superhero movies ever, The Dark Knight. However, he also simply loves films and filmmaking. So, as we prepare for the release of The Odyssey on the 2026 movie schedule, we got to see the director’s fanboy side as he showed the film’s IMAX popcorn bucket to his cinematographer.
While most popcorn buckets tend to be themed to the actual plot of a movie, and The Odyssey does have one shaped like a Trojan horse, it also has one that looks like an IMAX camera. For context, Nolan’s book-to-screen adaptation of this epic was filmed entirely on IMAX film cameras, and it was the first movie to ever be shot that way. So, I gotta say, it makes a lot of sense why the director geeked out over the camera-shaped bucket like this:
