The Odyssey will be the first blockbuster in history to be exclusively shot on IMAX film cameras, per The Hollywood Reporter. This is quite the feat, as IMAX film cameras are notoriously hard to work with due to them being big and loud, unlike the much lighter digital IMAX cameras.

When it launches next summer, Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Greek epic The Odyssey will be historic in more ways than one: it will be the first feature film ever shot entirely on IMAX film. The Odyssey isn’t the first film to be shot entirely using IMAX hardware — that honor belongs to Avengers: Infinity War — but it’s the first to do so while shooting on film,

Coming away from the $100M global success of Oppenheimer in Imax (in a total global haul of $975.8M), Christopher Nolan made a challenge to Imax Boss Rich Gelfond. “A year before Chris started filming The Odyssey,