Universal boss Donna Langley praises ‘The Odyssey’: “Christopher Nolan represents pure cinema”
The executive says it was very easy to say yes to the film.
Few have been lucky enough to enjoy Christopher Nolan’s new film, ‘The Odyssey’. One of them was his brother Jonathan, who did not hesitate to praise the quality of the production. Donna Langley, head of Universal, did not want to say much about what she saw in the film, but she did not hesitate to praise the director.
“[It’s] looking like a wonderful Christopher Nolan movie,” she said in an interview with Variety. The filmmaker presented him with the script in early 2025 and began shooting shortly thereafter. “He went into full prep on the film and then into production in a fairly short period of time,” he revealed. “That’s the way he likes to work. He likes efficiency and he likes to get on with it.”
Audiences want spectacle on the big screen, according to Langley
For Langley, approving the project was easy: “The thing that Christopher Nolan represents is pure cinema. And I think what we’re seeing with audiences, and we certainly saw how they showed up for ‘Oppenheimer,’ is that there’s an audience that wants to show up for a Christopher Nolan movie and there’s an audience that wants to show up for pure cinema,” she says. According to the executive, there is an audience that wants to see big spectacles on the big screen.
Any production can be a risk, but giving the greenlight to ‘The Odyssey’ “was not a difficult yes,” she said.
‘The Odyssey’ will hit theaters on July 17.
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