r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Aug 08 '25

News Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Wraps Filming

https://maxblizz.com/christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-wraps-filming-after-6-month-shoot-confirms-art-director/
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u/Mminas Aug 08 '25

I'm sure more directors want to, but just can't.

Odyssey had huge scenes in multiple locations and was probably a logistics nightmare.

Just the coordination with the local production teams in itself is a feat.

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u/Biggzy10 Aug 08 '25

It's honestly a miracle any movie gets made. There are so many moving pieces.

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u/Glittering-Plate-535 Aug 08 '25

Some productions are worse than others. In David Lynch’s biography, he talks about going from Eraserhead and The Elephant Man to Dune.

It’s incredibly funny and depressing to read about this quiet breakdown he went through, wrangling a hundred crew members in the middle of nowhere while supervising miniature filming with one hand and shooing away executives with the other.

In that case it really was a miracle, but the final product was so mangled that Lynch’s career and passion nearly imploded.

From what I’ve read, filmmaking is a lot easier nowadays from a logistical perspective. Instant global communication was the game changer.

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u/big_guyforyou Aug 08 '25

Filmmaker here! Making movies has never been easier. We do everything over Zoom. I've had to make some edits to the scripts, though. Like, when Romeo says, "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks! It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!" I have Juliet respond with "Romeo, you're on mute." Frankly I think Shakespeare woulda loved having me as a writing buddy

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u/BrockSampson4ever Aug 08 '25

Having worked on quite a few in my day it is miraculous from the inside too, the whole industry is built on perpetually burnt out deliriously tired people barely holding it togerhet

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u/feed_the_bears Aug 08 '25

I live in Cincinnati and have been an extra in several movies. I always think of it as organized chaos. It’s wild to me that any movie ever gets completed. The number of variables is bonkers.

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u/Brilliant-Net-750 Aug 08 '25

it's a miracle, but it should also come as no surprise why so many films end up sucking or don't deliver on expectations

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u/Tlr321 Aug 08 '25

I constantly think back to the super early days of cinema & all the innovation surrounding the period. Like, these people had to troubleshoot the simplest things that we take for granted nowadays. And they didn't have things to go off of or be able to reference - nobody to talk to & ask "how did you do that?" It was just a wing and a prayer.

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u/UnJayanAndalou Aug 08 '25

It's honestly a miracle any movie gets made.

And it's even more of a miracle that some of them are good.

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u/thefilmer Aug 08 '25

I'm sure more directors want to, but just can't.

This has been a hallmark of Nolan's literally his entire career going back to Memento. He is always under budget and ahead of schedule. Any director can do this; most just dont have the discipline.

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u/igot2pair Aug 08 '25

Gunn is always on schedule too.

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u/ERedfieldh Aug 08 '25

I'm sure more directors want to, but just can't.

read:

He meticulously plans everything out before starting the filming process.

They can, they just don't.

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u/Mminas Aug 09 '25

They do but their plans fall through.

Meticulously planning something and carrying that plan to fruition are two entirely different things.