Christopher Nolan did something that had never been done before when he created the whole thing The Odyssey with IMAX cameras. Its lead actor, Matt Damon, faced a major challenge in acting in front of noisy cameras.
The Oscar-winning actor plays King Odysseus in the large-scale adaptation of Homer’s epic poem from the 8th century BC.
During a performance at Travis and Jason Kelce’s New heights podcast, he said, “Here it was 100 percent on Imax. It was the first movie ever made entirely on Imax. Imax cameras are very loud. It sounds like a blender, like a Cuisinart in your face when the camera is close to you. So there was never any of this dialogue.” [scenes in Imax]. We couldn’t have this conversation with a normal Imax camera because you wouldn’t be able to hear us.”
He added: “They built this giant thing around the Imax for those dialogue scenes and a system of mirrors so that your eyeline 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 [that]because he wanted to do 100 percent Imax, and he did!”
IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond previously shared how the celebrated director reached out to him about resolving filming issues The Odyssey 100% on Imax.
“I’m going to give you a challenge. If you can figure out how to solve these problems, I’m going to make Odyssey 100% film with Imax cameras,” and we solved his problems. So this will be the first movie ever, at least 100% filmed, with Imax cameras,” he said.
