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 be taking their job exactly as seriously as they should — especially Tom Holland, who called the head of Sony during filming for Nolan’s epic so he and the cast could screen a 70mm print of the classic film Lawrence of Arabia during production.
Matt Damon revealed the behind-the-scenes tidbit in the latest issue of Empire magazine. “We were at Sony, and Tom Rothman has one of the pristine 70-mil prints of that movie,” he explained in an interview with the outlet. “And Tom Holland, because he’s Spider-Man and he’s everybody’s favourite at that studio, called Rothman and he arranged for us to screen it on a Sunday, the full four hours.”
Damon stars in Nolan’s upcoming film as Odysseus, while Holland plays his son, Telemachus. The film also stars Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita N’yongo, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Elliot Page, Mia Goth, and many more.
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In the Empire special, Nolan also spoke to the outlet about making something as timeless as an adaptation of Homer’s epic poem.
“Emma [Thomas, producer and Nolan’s wife] said it best when we first announced the project: it’s foundational,” the filmmaker explained. “There’s a bit of everything in it. I mean, it truly contains all stories.”
He added: “As a filmmaker, you’re looking for gaps in cinematic culture, things that haven’t been done before. And what I saw is that all of this great mythological cinematic work that I had grown up with – Ray Harryhausen movies and other things – I’d never seen that done with the sort of weight and credibility that an A-budget and a big Hollywood, IMAX production could do.”
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The Odyssey is set to be released in theaters on July 17, 2026.
Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
