Matt Damon explains why ‘The Odyssey’ will be the only true IMAX film and how impressed he is by how it was shot
The renowned artist talks about his great experience working on the film.
‘The Odyssey’ will hit theaters on July 17. Christopher Nolan’s latest film has everything it takes to be one of the biggest releases of the year, and with Matt Damon in the lead role, he talked about his experience filming in IMAX and how impressed he is with the filming on the podcast ‘New Heights’, hosted by Jason and Travis Kelce, two big NFL stars, one retired and one still active, who are hugely popular in the United States.
“IMAX cameras are really loud. It sounds like a blender in your face when the camera’s close to you. So there’s never been these dialogue [scenes in IMAX]. We couldn’t have this conversation with a normal IMAX camera because you wouldn’t be able to hear us,” Matt Damon says of the experience of filming ‘The Martian’ with the IMAX system.
An epic shoot for a film that aims to make history
Regarding the filming of ‘The Odyssey’, he also points out that “they built this giant thing around the IMAX for those dialogue scenes and a system of mirrors so your eye line would be close to the camera and you could talk to the other actor. The amount of work that went into figuring out how to do [that], because he wanted to do 100% IMAX and he did it.”
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Matt Damon talks about his experience working with Christopher Nolan, noting that “were locations we shot in that I’d just start laughing [because] nobody has any business shooting here, but of course he wants to shoot here ... he has such a great crew, they’re so badass, and everybody just maxed out on that movie ... It was an awesome experience.”
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