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‘The Odyssey’ is arguably the biggest film of Christopher Nolan’s career. It may also be the summer blockbuster the entertainment industry needs right now. Nolan’s been dreaming about a Homeric epic for decades, and it’s hard not to notice that Odysseus’ journey has haunted all of the movies he’s written and directed. Men recruited to make personal sacrifices for a greater cause (‘Batman Begins’, ‘Interstellar’, ‘Dunkirk’, ‘Tenet’, ‘Oppenheimer’); men yearning to return to their children (‘The Prestige’, ‘Inception’, ‘Interstellar’); narrative structures that fracture and loop through time (all his movies). For more than 20 years, Nolan carried his vision through Gotham, through outer space, through Los Alamos. Then, in 2023, ‘Oppenheimer’ grossed nearly $1 billion and won seven Oscars. “That gave me options,” says Nolan. “And what had never really been done is a cinematic telling of ‘The Odyssey’ with all of the capacity of a large-scale Hollywood studio production. It’s an odd gap in movie history.” It’s the first feature-length film shot entirely on IMAX, and the scale is truly awe-inspiring. For Matt Damon, filming The Odyssey was the most rewarding experience of his career. “Movies like this are not getting made anymore. To do this without a green screen … I don’t know anybody, with the exception of Chris, that’s even trying to do that. I looked at this like the last movie I’d ever do.” Get exclusive insight into the filming process and read interviews with Nolan, Damon, Anne Hathaway, and Emma Thomas, at the link in bio. Photograph by @devinyalkin for TIME Set Design by Ali Gallagher (@aligeeze, @11thhouseagency); Art Department by Zoran Radanovich (@zoranradanovich)