Communist China is preparing to roll out the red carpet treatment for Christopher Nolan’s evisceration of The Odyssey this week by taking the unusual step of featuring the film in nearly 800 IMAX screens for it’s opening in China.
Chinese film authorities approved a huge rollout for Nolan’s vision of the nearly 3,000-year-old tale of Odysseus’s trek home from the Trojan War, according to Variety.
IMAX China CEO Daniel Manwaring, who is married to Chinese filmmaker Zhang Mo, noted that the debut is going to be “huge.”
“I’m expecting a very large majority of our entire network, if not all of our network, that first week will be playing...
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