Christopher Nolan on ‘The Odyssey’ and IMAX Technical Challenges

He and the cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema combined new inventions (like fire-mimicking lights they developed) with century-old techniques.“I called up my friends at IMAX,” Christopher Nolan said. “I couldn’t tell them what the movie was yet, but I said if ever we were going to do a film all in IMAX, this is the one.”