Matt Damon has played various roles throughout his career, but his latest role as the Greek king Odysseus in ‘The Odyssey’ presented his biggest on-screen challenge.
Challenging Film Experience
Director Christopher Nolan insisted on practical effects and real-world scale over digital shortcuts for his telling of ‘The Odyssey’, which will debut in theaters on July 17. The nearly three-hour movie from Universal Pictures, the first feature film shot entirely with IMAX cameras, adapts one of the oldest surviving stories in human history.
Damon and fellow cast members worked through extreme weather conditions with high winds and pounding rain that battered them on ships out in the open ocean. ‘It was without question the hardest film, the most challenging, that I’ve ever done,’ he said.
The Story of ‘The Odyssey’
‘The Odyssey’, the epic poem, dates back in written form to around the seventh or eighth century BC and is widely believed to have been sung before that in oral tradition. The story centers on Odysseus as he tries to get home after devising the strategy that won the Greeks the Trojan War.
On his voyage across the seas, Odysseus encounters witches, monsters, and gods before finally getting back to his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus. The movie, Nolan’s follow-up to the 2023 blockbuster and best picture winner ‘Oppenheimer’, cost $250 million to make.
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