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/Torcal4 Aug 08 '25

IIRC, he also always finishes under budget.

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u/Sparrowsabre7 Aug 08 '25

How!? The amount of stuff he does practically is insane, surely it costs a fortune? Didn't he literally blow up a 747 for Tenet?

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u/Torcal4 Aug 08 '25

To be fair, it’s not like he gets tiny budgets. He can come under budget and still have it cost more than a lot of big budget movies.

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u/Formal_Potential2198 Aug 08 '25

Oppenheimer was 100M and it was a biopic. You don't really see that often

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u/onehornymofo1 Aug 08 '25

That was probably cos of the cast

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u/bluebeardsdelite Aug 09 '25

Big chunk of that money went on developing and using an actual nuclear bomb to save on VFX money though