Christopher Nolan might make cinema historical past but once more together with his Common adaptation of “The Odyssey.”
One of many movie‘s stunt performers, James Newman, mentioned in the course of the “Motion for Everybody” podcast, as reported by Screenrant, that the function goes to be “an epic of all epics” and is auteur Nolan “at his finest.”
“The Odyssey” is Nolan’s reimagining of the enduring Greek epic about hero Odysseus who spends a decade making an attempt to return dwelling after preventing within the Trojan Battle. Matt Damon stars within the lead function. The movie was introduced in December 2024 as Nolan’s thirteenth function. The ensemble solid features a slew of reunions for Nolan along with working once more with Damon, together with Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Elliot Web page, and Benny Safdie. Tom Holland, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Mia Goth, Jon Bernthal, and John Leguizamo additionally star.
“They’re by no means going to make a film like this once more,” stunt performer Newman mentioned. “I feel it’s going to be an epic of all epics. It’s going to be Nolan at his finest. No holds barred.”
That implies that the battle sequences are much more bloody, and the places are much more daring locations to shoot.
“He undoubtedly fights a battle that lots of people aren’t preventing,” Newman mentioned of Nolan’s method to directing. “The coordinator got here to us with scout photos of places, and it’s simply throughout Europe as a result of Odysseus’ journey is loopy, it’s like 10 years lengthy. They discovered places and Nolan would go like, ‘OK, this cave, has anybody ever filmed right here earlier than?’ And the native man is like, ‘No.’ [Nolan] is like, ‘OK, nice, we’re going to movie right here.’ This untouched place. He desires to be the primary particular person there to do it, he desires to really feel like nobody has ever touched floor right here. And each location is a hike.”
One location, which Newman believed to be Odysseus’ dwelling within the movie, is a two kilometer hike on an incline to even attain. And Newman additionally hinted that actors Damon and Holland have a slew of spectacular stunts onscreen as nicely.
“I had the chance to make some motion with a proficient group of individuals for the movie and likewise had the chance to coach Matt Damon and Tom Holland for the movie. All of the rumors about Tom being bodily in a position are so true. He can actually do something. He ought to get each bodily function doable,” Newman mentioned. “With Tom, he’s clearly extra athletic and he’s youthful so he’s going to nearly be a youthful model of Odysseus.”
As for Damon’s Odysseus, Newman continued, “Matt undoubtedly needed to be extra environment friendly as a result of that’s the character. Odysseus, if anybody is conversant in that story, Odysseus is admittedly the one conflict scene character alongside that journey. The blokes he has with him have fought with him however Odysseus himself is like, ‘I’ve lived and breathed battle,’ and in order that makes him extra good, and that’s why he’s so good. Matt undoubtedly understood that after which we have been making an attempt to play that up as nicely. So he isn’t going to do flashy issues.”
Actor Leguizamo mentioned throughout MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Nolan nonetheless works like an impartial filmmaker regardless of having an enormous price range. “He’s obtained a loopy price range, it’s not small, however he runs [it] like an indie movie as a result of he’s not doing it by committee, he’s not doing it by what the studio says,” Leguizamo mentioned. “He’s like an indie filmmaker however with loopy cash.”