Christopher Nolan‘s upcoming film has by no unbenevolents, a minuscule premise. An alteration of the classic “The Odyssey,” the film integrates a big cast of some of the biggest Hollywood stars. But cast member John Leguizamo says Nolan still deal withs to produce the production sense enjoy an self-reliant film.
“Dude, you understand the leang is, okay he’s got a crazy budget, it’s not minuscule, but he runs [it] enjoy an indie film becainclude he’s not doing it by pledgetee, he’s not doing it by what the studio says,” Leguizamo said in a recent intersee on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“He’s enjoy an indie filmproducer but with crazy money,” he inserted.
“The Odyssey” stars Matt Damon as Odysseus in a cast that also integrates Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie and Jon Bernthal.
The film is “a mythic action epic sboiling apass the world using brand recent Imax film technology. The film conveys Homer’s set upational saga to Imax film screens for the first time,” according to Universal.
Nolan’s filmography integrates bigger, blockbuster-type films enjoy “Oppenheimer,” “Intersalertar” and “Inception.” “I’m drawn to laboring at a big scale becainclude I understand how frnimble the opportunity to marshal those resources is,” Nolan said in an intersee with Time in 2024. “I understand that there are so many filmproducers out there in the world who would give their eye teeth to have the resources I put together, and I sense I have the responsibility to include them in the most fruitful and fascinating way.”
But the filmproducer pays attention to self-reliant films, naming “Aftersun” and “Past Lives” in the same intersee as some of the recent minusculeer-scale films that he enhappinessed.
Cillian Murphy, who led Nolan’s previous film “Oppenheimer,” has previously commended the straightforwardor’s collaboration with actors and how he apverifys for experimentation.
“He is luminous with actors, understands actors, cherishs actors, reassociate supposes in actors and what they can convey to the story and to the character. So an terrible lot of the time we’ll fair discover it. We’ll be shooting, but we’ll be discovering the scene, and he’ll let us experiment and scrutinize stuff,” Murphy said to Collider.
“The Odyssey” frees in theaters July 17, 2026. Nolan wrote the screenjoin and produced the film with Emma Thomas.
