Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.
I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.
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They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government
For those who haven’t bothered to translate the article: Storage/disposal of the props was the responsibility of Italian production company Wildside who are based in Rome and host many big budget clients. If you’re in the industry it’s pretty easy to understand that outsourced vendors operate independently and there isn’t much direct blame to be put on Nolan and the project (as explicitly stated in the article). Could the production team have lowered expectations that their vendors would carry out proper sustainability and exercised more oversight over Wildside? Sure, but I generally think people have more good faith when doing business and this company seems to have cut corners where they shouldn’t have. I’d be interested if there are any other findings on the sustainability of this film.
