Christopher Nolan cut ‘Oppenheimer’ shoot to free up money for set design
nme.comChristopher Nolan cut the Oppenheimer shoot by a month in order to free up money for set design, it has been revealed.Speaking on the Team Deakins podcast, production designer Ruth De Jong discussed Nolan re-allocating the budget from 30 planned filming days to production design.“It felt like a $100 million indie,” De Jong said. “This is not Tenet.
Chris wanted to shoot all over the United States…just plane tickets alone and putting crew up all over the place [is expensive].
Not to mention I have to build Los Alamos, it doesn’t exist. That’s where I really felt like it was impossible.“Chris said, ‘Forget the money.
Let’s just design what we want.’ So that’s what we did, and when construction first budgeted my town it was $20 million. Chris was like, ‘Yeah, no.
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