John Leguizamo stars in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’
John Leguizamo applauded Christopher Nolan on his inventive filmmaking type for upcoming film, The Odyssey.
Leguizamo gushed in regards to the Oscar successful director in an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, dubbing him as an “indie filmmaker but with crazy money”.
“Dude, you know the thing is, okay he’s got a crazy budget, it’s not small, but he runs [it] like an indie film because he’s not doing it by committee, he’s not doing it by what the studio says,” he mentioned.
Nolan is understood for his hit movies like Oscar-winning Oppenheimer, Interstellar and Inception. Beforehand, in an interview with the Time, he shared why he valued large-scale filmmaking.
“I’m drawn to working at a large scale because I know how fragile the opportunity to marshal those resources is.”
He continued, “I know that there are so many filmmakers out there in the world who would give their eye teeth to have the resources I put together, and I feel I have the responsibility to use them in the most productive and interesting way.”
Along with Leguizamo, the movie stars Matt Damon as Odysseus, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie and Jon Bernthal.
In response to Common, the movie is “a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new Imax film technology. The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to Imax film screens for the first time.”
The Odyssey is slated for launch on July 17, 2026.
