Matt Damon Revealed Tom Holland Called Sony To Arrange 70mm Screening of a Movie Classic For The Odyssey Cast

Everyone who is making The Odyssey with Christopher Nolan seems to beryllium taking their occupation precisely arsenic earnestly arsenic they should — particularly Tom Holland, who called the caput of Sony during filming for Nolan’s epic truthful helium and the formed could surface a 70mm people of the classical movie Lawrence of Arabia during production.

Matt Damon revealed the behind-the-scenes tidbit successful the latest contented of Empire magazine. “We were astatine Sony, and Tom Rothman has 1 of the pristine 70-mil prints of that movie,” helium explained successful an interrogation with the outlet. “And Tom Holland, due to the fact that he’s Spider-Man and he’s everybody’s favourite astatine that studio, called Rothman and helium arranged for america to surface it connected a Sunday, the afloat 4 hours.”

Damon stars successful Nolan’s upcoming movie arsenic Odysseus, portion Holland plays his son, Telemachus. The movie besides stars Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita N’yongo, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Elliot Page, Mia Goth, and galore more.

In the Empire special, Nolan besides spoke to the outlet astir making thing arsenic timeless arsenic an adaptation of Homer’s epic poem.

“Emma [Thomas, shaper and Nolan’s wife] said it champion erstwhile we archetypal announced the project: it’s foundational,” the filmmaker explained. “There’s a spot of everything successful it. I mean, it genuinely contains each stories.”

He added: “As a filmmaker, you’re looking for gaps successful cinematic culture, things that haven’t been done before. And what I saw is that each of this large mythological cinematic enactment that I had grown up with – Ray Harryhausen movies and different things – I’d ne'er seen that done with the benignant of value and credibility that an A-budget and a large Hollywood, IMAX accumulation could do.”

The Odyssey is acceptable to beryllium released successful theaters connected July 17, 2026.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.