Dwayne Johnson’s Christmas film ‘Red One’ was inspired by ‘Oppenheimer’

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Dwayne Johnson has claimed that his new Christmas film Red One was inspired by an Imax viewing of Oppenheimer.The festive action-adventure stars Johnson as the head of North Pole security, who teams up with Chris Evans’ bounty hunter to find a kidnapped Santa Claus (J.K.

Simmons) on Christmas Eve.The film, which currently sits on a 35% score on Rotten Tomatoes, was apparently influenced by an unlikely source, however, in the form of Christohper Nolan’s Oscar-winning, billion-pound blockbuster Oppenheimer.As Johnson recently explained to Imax, it was a viewing of the Cillian Murphy film that inspired him to make sure Red One would live up to the largest screen format anywhere in the world.It's gonna… rock!

See what we did there, @TheRock? #RedOneMovie pic.twitter.com/H0pvoZSaG3— IMAX (@IMAX) November 11, 2024“With Red One, our intention was to make a movie that you can enjoy on the biggest screen possible,” Johnson said. “Legitimately the biggest screens possible are Imax.

I was midway through shooting Red One and I had an opportunity to see Oppenheimer. I watched in the Imax theatre where Christopher Nolan watches and screens his movies.