Matt Damon On Filming ‘The Odyssey’ With Loud Imax Cameras: “Like A Cuisinart In Your Face”

[ad_1] As Christopher Nolan took him on The Odyssey, Matt Damon needed to study to carry out for a brand new medium.

The Oscar-winning actor not too long ago detailed a number of the challenges of filming a film fully on Imax cameras, which had by no means been carried out earlier than the Nolan-helmed adaptation of Homer’s eighth century BC epic poem.

“On this one, it was one hundred pc on Imax,” he mentioned on the New Heights podcast. “It was the primary film that was ever carried out all on Imax. Imax cameras are actually loud. It feels like a blender, like a Cuisinart in your face when the digicam’s near you. So there’s by no means been these dialogue [scenes in Imax]. We couldn’t have this dialog with a traditional Imax digicam since you wouldn’t have the ability to hear us.”

Damon added, “They constructed this large factor across the Imax for these dialogue scenes and a system of mirrors so your eyeline can be near the digicam and you would speak to the opposite actor. The quantity of labor that went into determining the way to do [that], as a result of he wished to do one hundred pc Imax, and he did it!”

Imax CEO Wealthy Gelfond beforehand recalled that Nolan contacted him a couple of 12 months earlier than filming, telling him he wished to shoot The Odyssey 100% on Imax.

“That couldn’t be carried out for lots of causes,” mentioned Gelfond, including: “There have been a lot of points.”

Gelfond mentioned Nolan instructed him, “‘I’m going to provide you a problem. In case you can determine the way to clear up these issues, I’m going to make Odyssey 100% movie with Imax cameras,’ and we’ve solved his issues. So, this would be the first movie ever, no less than filmed 100%, with Imax cameras.”

An adaptation of one of many first tales in human historical past, The Odyssey follows Odysseus (Damon) by the unimaginable trials and legendary encounters he faces on his decade-long journey residence to spouse Penelope after the Trojan Struggle.

Premiering July 17, 2026 in Imax, The Odyssey additionally stars Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Elliot Web page, Himesh Patel, Invoice Irwin, Samantha Morton, Jesse Garcia, Will Yun Lee, Rafi Gavron, Shiloh Fernandez, Mia Goth and extra.