Was Oppenheimer filmed without special effects? Here is the truth!

Hitting theaters on July 19, Oppenheimer was the movie phenomenon of the summer with Barbie. Christopher Nolan’s film has already earned $854 million worldwide, the result of a three-hour biopic about the father of the atomic bomb.

Before the release of the film, the director of The Dark Knight and Inception said in the collider that the feature film contained no digital effects, especially in the film’s key scene: the detonation of the first atomic bomb. It was enough to excite the media and the public, who concluded that Nolan did without visual effects.

to the microphone The Hollywood ReporterAndrew Jackson, Oppenheimer’s visual effects supervisor, sets the record straight. “Some people have heard that there were no visual effects, which is patently false.”Edited by Jackson, a 2021 Oscar winner for Tenet.

Some people believed that there were no visual effects, which is clearly false.

“Visual effects can encompass many things. These include computer-generated imagery and practical special effects created on set.”– explains the specialist. In total, the film contains approximately 200 visual effects, including practical effects shots.

We remind you that Oppenheimer takes us to 1942. Convinced that Nazi Germany is developing nuclear weapons, the United States secretly launches the Manhattan Project, which aims to create the first atomic bomb in history.

As a pilot of this device, the government hired J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who would soon be nicknamed the “Father of the Atomic Bomb.”

It was in the ultra-secret Los Alamos laboratory, in the heart of the New Mexico desert, that a scientist and his team developed a revolutionary weapon whose dizzying consequences still plague the world today.

In France, the feature film drew 4.1 million viewers.