Christopher Nolan recreated nuclear explosion without CGI for new film

 

Christopher Nolan recreated nuclear explosion without CGI for new film

Director, who blew up a Boeing 747 for Tenet, has spoken of the challenges of practically recreating the atomic bomb test for Oppenheimer

Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer, written and directed by Christopher Nolan.
‘A huge challenge’ … Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer, written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Photograph: Universal Pictures/AP

Christopher Nolan has spoken of the challenges of showing an atomic explosion without resorting to computer-generated imagery for his new film, Oppenheimer.

The director’s forthcoming biopic of Robert Oppenheimer, one of the pioneers of nuclear weapons during the second world war, involves a scene recreating the first atomic detonation in New Mexico in July 1945, a month before the US dropped similar bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, hastening the end of the conflict.

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