Oppenheimer: a 6-minute making-of plunges us into the heart of the atomic blockbuster

One week before its theatrical release, scheduled for July 19, Oppenheimer continues to raise our expectations. Christopher Nolan’s next film is revealed through two new making ofwhich take us behind the scenes of the atomic blockbuster.

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These unpublished images tell us a little more about the new production of the director of The Dark Knight, Inception And Interstellar.

We learn in particular that the village of the national laboratory of Los Alamos, where the technicians of the Manhattan project lived in the 1940s, was entirely recreated at Ghost Ranch Abiqiu, in New Mexico, for the needs of the film.

Christopher Nolan has also filmed in several authentic places in his history, and in particular at Princeton University, where, for example, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein really worked.

• Watch the making of Pushing the Button (French subtitles via the YouTube player):

The IMAX, a colossal format

The other size peculiarity of the film is that it is shot entirely in 65mm wide film format, mixing 65mm Panavision and 65mm IMAX film, instead of the usual 35mm format.

Some scenes fromOppenheimer were even shot for the very first time in black-and-white 65mm IMAX, film stock that simply didn’t exist and had to be created for the film. Result: the final reel of the film is 18 km long and weighs 300 kilos!

• Watch the IMAX making-of:

With a budget of $100 million, Oppenheimer tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant researcher in love with culture and humanism, known for having led the development of the atomic bomb in the United States during the Second World War.

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, the film has a stellar cast: Cillian Murphy in the title role, but also Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Josh Hartnett, or even Florence Pugh.

Release scheduled for July 19, 2023 in French cinemas.

• Watch the movie trailer: