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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Andrew Pulver

Epic movie: Christopher Nolan uses 2m ft of film for adaptation of The Odyssey

‘So cool’ … Matt Damon in the Odyssey.
‘So cool’ … Matt Damon in the Odyssey. Photograph: Universal Pictures

Christopher Nolan says he has used more than 2 million ft of film for his adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, which is in post-production, after the director finished shooting in August.

In an interview with Empire magazine, Nolan said: “I’ve been out on [the sea] for the last four months. We got the cast who play the crew of Odysseus’s ship out there on the real waves, in the real places … We really wanted to capture how hard those journeys would have been for people. And the leap of faith that was being made in an unmapped, uncharted world.” He added: “We shot over 2 million ft of film.”

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