Christopher Nolan just pulled back the curtain on The Odyssey with massive new footage from his upcoming epic. The 60 Minutes interview revealed striking new looks at Troy, the towering Trojan Horse, and the director’s most ambitious IMAX production yet.
The Odyssey’s new clips from Christopher Nolan’s movie revealed
60 Minutes revealed new details and footage from Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film The Odyssey, including clearer looks at Troy, the Trojan Horse, and large-scale battle sequences.
The interview with Scott Pelley featured several new scenes showing Matt Damon as Odysseus during his journey home after the Trojan War. Footage also showed soldiers surrounding the massive Trojan Horse near the city gates. Nolan explained the scale behind the adaptation, saying, “In taking on The Odyssey, it does become about scale.” He added, “It needed to be the biggest film that we had done.”
The segment included scenes filmed across large desert landscapes and crowded ancient city sets built for the production. Pelley reacted to one storm sequence by telling Nolan, “Looks like you nearly drowned Matt Damon.”
Nolan responded, “We certainly put him through his paces.” Damon later described the demanding production schedule during the interview. He said, “It was the hardest movie I’ve ever done by far.” Damon also explained that the production faced major technical challenges while filming entirely with IMAX cameras.
60 Minutes reported that The Odyssey became the first feature-length movie filmed completely on IMAX film cameras. Nolan demonstrated how editors physically cut and glued film negatives together at FotoKem in Burbank, California.
Pelley explained that 70mm IMAX film delivers image quality “up to three times higher than digital.” Damon described how crews used large soundproof housings and mirror systems to operate the cameras during dialogue scenes. He said the production originally doubted whether filming entirely in IMAX would succeed.
Nolan also discussed his storytelling approach while describing how he wanted audiences to experience the journey directly alongside Odysseus. He said, “I’m trying to put the audience into that horse.” He added, “I’m trying to put them on the deck of Odysseus’s ship.”
Universal Pictures will release The Odyssey on July 17, 2026.
