Even though Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has already proven well worth its $250 million (£187.5 million) budget, the director said filming it took a hefty toll. “People were just exhausted,” Nolan shared in a The Daily Show interview, explaining that his cast and crew stopped shooting a week earlier than expected. “They’d been through it... it took the right time to make the film. So what did it really take to finish the monumental blockbuster on time and under budget? “If [the script] says ‘thousands of people’, there are going to be thousands of people.