Oppenheimer: Director Christopher Nolan unveils interpretation of IMAX film cameras filming the atomic bomb scene

Oppenheimer is set to arrive in theaters on July 21, 2023.

By Bollywood Hungama News Network -

December 15, 2022 - 1:57 PM IST

Christopher Nolan, along with his longtime collaborator, cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, is back on the director’s chair to film his upcoming biopic film Oppenheimer, and what better way to tell an explosive story than the use of the filmmaker’s favorite: IMAX cameras.

Oppenheimer: Director Christopher Nolan unveils interpretation of IMAX film cameras filming the atomic bomb scene

Nolan has been making his mark in the realm of cinema for over two decades. The revolutionary filmmaker behind masterpieces like The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk, Nolan is known for taking filmmaking up a notch with every film. So, it is with Nolan's upcoming story Oppenheimer.

Oppenheimer is based on the 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning book ‘American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer’ by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. In Nolan’s upcoming biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy portrays the titular role of Oppenheimer, one of the fathers of the A-bomb during the Second World War, who later found his loyalty to the United States questioned by hawkish government officials.

According to Collider, the challenge for Nolan, on Oppenheimer, at least, was that nobody had actually shot on large-format monochrome before, which meant that some imagination was required. To create such a visual masterpiece, Nolan along with cinematographer Hoytema, worked around with Kodak who made it possible to make the first-ever IMAX film in black-and-white.

"So, we challenged the people at Kodak photochem to make this work for us," said Nolan to Total Film. "And they stepped up. For the first time ever, we were able to shoot IMAX film in black-and-white. And the results were thrilling and extraordinary. As soon as Hoyte and I saw the first tests come in, we just knew that this was a format that we were immediately in love with." Below is an interpretation of how Nolan used the IMAX cameras for filming the atomic bomb scene.

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The upcoming visual masterpiece stars an ensemble cast of Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz, Michael Angarano and Kenneth Branagh.

While we wait in baited breath for another gem of a movie by Nolan, set to arrive in theaters on July 21, watch the stunning teaser trailer for Oppenheimer below!