Christopher Nolan may be the most vocal champion of IMAX the world has ever seen. The director has used IMAX cameras in most of his films, with each addition to his oeuvre more readily embracing the big-screen format. Nolan tells stories on an epic scale, so it only makes sense for him to pursue and perfect the most epic filmmaking techniques at his disposal.
Nolan’s last project, Oppenheimer, took his love for IMAX even further by shooting on film rather than digital. It’s a notoriously difficult process, as IMAX’s film cameras are loud and bulky. Because of the limits they pose to dialogue and more taxing action sequences, most filmmakers can only shoot a portion of their projects on film. But Nolan is determined to up the ante wherever possible, so his next film, The Odyssey, is striving to make IMAX history.
