{"id":529073,"date":"2026-01-20T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/529073\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T05:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:00:12","slug":"matt-damon-thinks-the-odyssey-is-the-last-big-movie-hell-ever-make-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/529073\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon Thinks \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Is the \u2018Last Big Movie\u2019 He\u2019ll Ever Make on Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Damon has plenty of projects in the works, but according to the actor, Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d might be the \u201clast big movie on film\u201d he ever gets to do.<\/p>\n

Damon\u2019s revelation came in the latest episode of Netflix\u2019s \u201cSkip Intro\u201d podcast. As the discussion neared its end, host Krista Smith asked the actor if there was one core memory, old or new, that was a \u201cturning point\u201d in his life. Damon immediately cited filming \u201cThe Odyssey.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDoing \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 this last year, it felt like my one chance in my life to make a David Lean movie, you know?\u201d he said. \u201cThat I was making the last big movie on film that I was ever going to get to make.\u201d (Oscar-winner Nolan famously shot the blockbuster epic on film using exclusively Imax film cameras \u2014 an industry first.)<\/p>\n

Damon said the film had \u201ca profound effect\u201d on him, one that he\u2019s \u201cstill kind of unpacking.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf I look objectively at what was required to do that job, I think it came at just the right time in my life,\u201d he said. \u201cI think I would have been miserable 20 years ago, trying to do that job.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were uncomfortable every day. But I really enjoyed, like, deeply enjoyed every minute of it,\u201d he continued. \u201cIntellectually, I understood that concept of you\u2019re not in control of what happens, but you are in control of how you feel about it \u2014 it\u2019s easier said than done. But to really feel gratitude \u2014 and I think because it was tied into not only the joy of being able to have a role that great with a director that great with a group of people that great and a story that great, but in that sense of nostalgia I had for how I started, how I came into the business, the feeling I had when iIwas shooting \u2018School Ties\u2019 and Freddie Francis was the cinematographer and I, you know, and I was like, \u2018This is really happening.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Damon will star in the film as Greek hero Odysseus, working alongside actors including past Nolan collaborators Robert Pattinson, Anne Hathaway, Elliot Page, Benny Safdie, Bill Irwin and Himesh Patel. <\/p>\n

The film will also feature Nolan newcomers Zendaya, Tom Holland, Jon Bernthal, Charlize Theron, Mia Goth, Lupita Nyong\u2019o, Samantha Morton, John Leguizamo, Corey Hawkins and Will Yun Lee.<\/p>\n

The film will be Nolan\u2019s adaptation of Homer\u2019s Ancient Greek poem, and was filmed with \u201cbrand new Imax film technology.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Odyssey\u201d is set to hit theaters on July 17.<\/p>\n

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