Christopher Nolan disagrees with Matt Damon on Hollywood’s future: Here’s why

Matt Damon recently said that he felt The Odyssey is the last chance to make a movie on such a huge scale.

“I knew that this was the last chance I was going to have to do something like this,” he told The Telegraph, adding, “I don’t think people are going to be given the resources to shoot movies that way for much longer.”

However, his director Christoper Nolan disagreed with him.

In his view, cinema still has the potential to make epics like The Odyssey.

As president of the Directors Guild of America, Nolan said, “I think I know what [Damon] was driving at, because it does seem like a long time since somebody made a film like this in this type of way, where you travel the world, get together a cast of thousands and so on.”

He continued, “But there’s a defeatist aspect of viewing it that way that I don’t agree with.”

“I think cinema is vital and essential and continues to transform itself — we’ve got all these great new young voices in movies, making the medium their own and moving it forward.”

To support his view, Nolan pointed to recent hit movies such as Obsession and Backrooms, both of which were developed by Gen Z filmmakers, which he said went on to show that cinema is evolving instead of fading,

The Odyssey will ship into cinemas on July 17.