Christopher Nolan says there is no CGI footage in OPPENHEIMER

Christopher Nolan’S Oppenheimer it looks like an amazing film and one of the things that intrigues me the most is how Nolan and his creative team will bring the nuclear explosion of the atomic bomb to life. The director has previously talked about the film and how he wanted to do virtually no CGI visual effects, and now confirms that there is no CGI in the film.

During a recent interview with Collider, he said there’s “zero” use of CGI in the historical biopic. It’s damn impressive. CGI is used for everything these days, and I can’t wait to see how exactly it fares. I also hope we get a behind-the-scenes look at the process of bringing the nuclear explosion to life.

I should note that there will be VFX used in the film and digital software can be used to edit and manipulate live-action footage. But there will be no CGI. Talking about the challenges Nolan explained earlier:

“I’m thinking of recreating the Trinity test [the first nuclear weapon detonation, in New Mexico] without the use of computer graphics, it was a great challenge to face. Andrew Jackson — my visual effects supervisor, I brought him on early — was looking at how we could do practically many of the visuals in the film, from the depiction of quantum dynamics and quantum physics to the Trinity test itself, to the recreation, with my team, Los Alamos on a mesa in New Mexico with extraordinary weather conditions, a lot of which were needed for the film, in terms of the very harsh conditions out there – there were huge practical challenges.”

He then went on to talk about the scope of the film and why it was so challenging for him:

“It’s a story of immense scope and scope. And one of the most challenging projects I’ve ever undertaken in terms of scale and in terms of meeting the breadth of Oppenheimer’s story. There were big logistical challenges, big practical challenges. But “I had an amazing crew, and they really stepped up. It’s going to be a while before we’re done. But certainly as I watch the results come in, and as I’m putting the film together, I’m thrilled with what my team has been into.” able to obtain”.

There is a lot of hype for this movie and a lot of people are excited about it. I have no doubt Nolan will make another epic film.

The film is described as “the heart-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world to save it.” The film is the protagonist Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who ran the Manhattan Project that led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II. He is joined by Emilia Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, e Robert Downey Jr. such as Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

The film is also the protagonist Florence Pug as psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber, Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence, along with Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Dan DeHaan, DylanArnold, David Krumholtz, Alden EhrenreichAND Matthew Modino.

The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. Oppenheimer is filmed in a combination of IMAX® 65mm and 65mm large format film photography that includes, for the first time ever, sections in IMAX® black and white analog photography.

Oppenheimer will be released in theaters on July 21, 2023.