The world is ready to know the story of the father of the atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer on 21 July 2023. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a war drama starring Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, and Emily Blunt. As it is a Nolan film it has every aspect of entertainment filled in it.
From an amazing star cast to a great storyline, the movie has everything to make it a huge success. As the movie is 3 hours long, during a recent interview, the 52-year-old filmmaker talked about his experiences with IMAX.
Christopher Nolan had a 180-page script for Oppenheimer
For Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is one of the biggest projects of his life and he has left no stone unturned to make it a huge success. During an interview, the British American filmmaker opened up about his conversation with IMAX. As the war drama film had a 180-page script, it is going to be a 3-hour long movie. Nolan recalled when he sat to have a conversation with the people of IMAX, they said 3 hours was the limit of the platters they had. While recalling the conversation, the 52-year-old director said,
“Then on this, I went to them and I said, “Okay, I’ve got a 180-page script. That’s a three-hour movie on the nose. Can it be done?” We looked at it, they looked at the platters, and they came to the conclusion that it could just be done [laughs]. They’re telling me this is the absolute limit because now the arm that holds the platter went right up against it. So, this, I think, is finally the outer limit of running time for an IMAX film print.”
The Tenet director also noted that even at that time when Interstellar was about to release as it was a two-and-a-half-hour-long film, he got down with IMAX to find out what they could do about the platters. Interstellar was a sci-fi adventure movie released in 2014.
Christopher Nolan says his upcoming movie Oppenheimer has an element of fear
Nolan is warning all the people out there who are planning to watch his war drama movie. The Inception director says Oppenheimer is an intense movie and it can affect people. While talking about his upcoming movie, the director said,
“Some people leave the movie absolutely devastated. They can’t speak. I mean, there’s an element of fear that’s there in the history and there in the underpinnings. But the love of the characters, the love of the relationships, is as strong as I’ve ever done.”
Nolan recalled that when he made a filmmaker watch his war drama, the filmmaker responded that this is a horror film. And, the Dunkirk director says he agrees to this.
