Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey Gets 6-Minute IMAX Prologue in Theaters This Weekend, And Next Week Before Avatar: Fire and Ash

A six-minute prologue for adjacent year's Christopher Nolan epic The Odyssey volition aerial successful prime IMAX theaters this weekend, and again adjacent week earlier screenings of Avatar: Fire and Ash.

To beryllium successful with a accidental to ticker this peculiar presentation, you'll request to beryllium sitting down successful an IMAX theatre this Friday, December 12, for 70mm screenings of Ryan Coogler's Sinners oregon the Leonardo DiCaprio-starring One Battle After Another.

From adjacent weekend, the prologue volition besides aerial up of IMAX screenings for Disney's caller Avatar threequel.

As reported by Variety, Nolan has chosen to merchandise this prologue present during the engaged vacation play portion attraction is high, and successful IMAX 70mm arsenic it is his preferred format. The Odyssey was antecedently announced arsenic being the archetypal blockbuster to beryllium afloat changeable utilizing IMAX cameras.

Due for motorboat connected July 17, 2026, The Odyssey features an all-star formed including Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong'o, Robert Pattinson, John Leguizamo, Mia Goth, Charlize Theron, and Jon Bernthal.

Damon precocious recalled an incidental during filming wherever Holland personally called the caput of Sony Pictures to put for 1 of the company's pristine 70mm prints of the classical movie Lawrence of Arabia to beryllium shown to The Odyssey's cast. "Tom Holland, due to the fact that he’s Spider-Man and he’s everybody’s favourite astatine that studio, called [Sony Pictures brag Tom] Rothman and helium arranged for america to surface it connected a Sunday, the afloat 4 hours," Damon said.

The Odyssey is Nolan's 13th film, aft antecedently helming Following, Memento, Insomnia, The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Tenet, Oppenheimer, and The Dark Knight Trilogy. Such is the anticipation for the movie, that a constricted fig of The Odyssey tickets went connected merchantability during the summertime — a twelvemonth successful beforehand of the movie opening.

While Nolan has agelong been celebrated arsenic 1 of the large directors of modern cinema, The Odyssey is expected to execute peculiarly powerfully pursuing the breakout occurrence of Oppenheimer, the Cillian Murphy-led biopic that fuelled 1 fractional of the Barbenheimer phenomenon, earned a staggering $975 cardinal during its theatrical run, and walked distant with Best Picture astatine the Oscars.

The Odyssey volition accommodate the epic Greek communicative of the aforesaid name, which follows heroic king Ithaca (Damon) connected his mode location from the Trojan War (which famously ended with Troy conquered aft the usage of the woody horse). The communicative is based connected story alternatively than humanities fact, truthful expect witches, Sirens, and the Cyclops to look — arsenic soon arsenic this weekend.

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