Jon Stewart Hails Nolan's 100-Day 'The Odyssey' Shoot as Staggering Ahead of Opening Week
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Updated · Hollywood Reporter · Jul 14
Jon Stewart Hails Nolan's 100-Day 'The Odyssey' Shoot as Staggering Ahead of Opening Week
3 articles · Updated · Hollywood Reporter · Jul 14
Summary
Jon Stewart used a 20-minute Daily Show interview to lavish praise on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, calling the film “staggering,” “spectacular” and a work that left him “absorbed and transformed.”
Real boats and real water were central to that reaction: Nolan said the film relied on practical effects and real locations to make Odysseus’ journey feel tangible, adding that “The Odyssey should be hard.”
100 days was the planned shoot, and Nolan said the production wrapped on day 91 only because the crew was exhausted, pushing back on Stewart’s suggestion that it had finished unusually early and under budget.
Oppenheimer also surfaced in the discussion, with Stewart arguing The Odyssey feels like a thematic sequel about a man reckoning with war; Nolan said that reading matched his intent.
The film, starring Matt Damon as Odysseus alongside Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson, opens this week.