In a cinema first, Christopher Nolan is shooting his Greek epic The Odyssey entirely on IMAX 65mm film cameras.

When the industry began its rapid switch to digital in the 2000s, Christopher Nolan was among a handful of filmmakers – Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson being two others – who continued to shoot on film.

From 2008’s The Dark Knight onwards, Nolan has also experimented with the IMAX film format – all of which appears to have built up to his latest production, The Odyssey. Nolan’s Greek myth epic will be the first movie to be shot entirely on IMAX’s 65mm format, according to the company’s CEO, Rich Gelfond.

Talking at the Cannes Film Festival, Gelfond said that, in the run-up to The Odyssey’s shoot, Nolan had asked IMAX to find a way to improve their cameras, which are notoriously big and heavy.

“Chris called me up and said,...