With his most epic cinematic outing yet, Christopher Nolan was determined to use as much practical filmmaking as possible.

The 2x Oscar-winning writer and director of The Odyssey revealed that he “shot over two million feet of film” during the 91-day shoot, much of which was actually at sea to capture the grand scale of Homer’s ancient Greek epic.

“It’s pretty primal! I’ve been out on it for the last four months,” he told Empire . “We got the cast who play the crew of Odysseus’ ship out there on the real waves, in the real places. And yeah, it’s vast and terrifying and wonderful and benevolent, as the conditions shift. We really wanted to capture how hard those journeys would have been for people. And the leap of faith that was being made in an unmapped, uncharted world.”

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