Cillian Murphy revealed in July that Christopher Nolan shot “Oppenheimer” in less than 60 days, no easy feat for a $100 million Hollywood tentpole. But it turns out Nolan was originally…
“Oppenheimer” production designer Ruth De Jong revealed that Nolan slashed around 30 filming days in order to re-allocate the film’s budget to production design and set locations.
That’s when Nolan did “the most incredible thing” in order “to achieve all of the desired looks and designs,” De Jong said. The filmmaker told her, “I’ve got to go do my homework,” which she later realized meant re-organizing the film’s shooting schedule in order to consolidate days and free up the budget for the production design. De Jong said “Oppenheimer” was originally set for an 85-day shoot, perhaps even more, but Nolan cut it down by at least 30 days.
With the budget freed up due to a limited shooting schedule, De Jong was able to have the finances needed to reconstruct Los Alamos from scratch in New Mexico. One of the only concessions she had to make was shooting portions of the film set in Washington D.C. in New Mexico since Nolan was not permitted to shoot in actual government buildings in D.C.. “The pace of that was insane.”
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