Nolan on 'recreating' a nuclear explosion while filming the film

Christopher Nolan, the British-American director whose name is most typically linked with films such as the neo-noir thriller "Memento" (2000), a psychological crime picture, and the screenwriter of "The Dark Knight" who introduced a new idea of the popular superhero Batman into modern culture.

Insomnia" (2002), "Prestige" (2006), "Poetka" (2010), and the epic, sci-fi odyssey across space and time "Interstellar" (2014) are all set to be released this summer. A new cinematic spectacular.

This time, Nolan deals with J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American physicist and the so-called "father of the atomic bomb," at a time when the dread of a nuclear war has surfaced as a result of contemporary global events.

Cillian Murphy, an Irish actor who had previously appeared in two installments of Nolan's Batman trilogy and the film "Inception," was cast in the title role.

In anticipation of the upcoming film, on which he collaborated with famous Hollywood names such as Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Josh Hartnett, Rami Malek, and Florence Pugh, Nolan discussed the difficulties he faced when depicting a nuclear explosion without the use of CGI technology, according to The Guardian.

Nolan, who destroyed a real Boeing 747 for his previous film "Tenet" in 2020, had a truck overturn during the filming of "The Dark Knight," and the film "Interstellar" on a melting glacier, was supposed to show the scene of the first atomic bomb detonation in New Mexico in 1945, a month before the dropping of similar bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan.

"It was a great task to recreate the Trinity nuclear test without using CGI technology," Nolan told Total Film, adding:

" Andrew Jackson, my visual effects consultant who joined the project from the start, was seeking for practical solutions for some visual components, such as the representation of quantum dynamics and quantum physics, as well as the Trinity exam itself."

Post by Bryan C.