LOS ANGLES: Hollywood actor Dwayne Johnson, The Rock, has said that the idea of his new film Red One to be released in IMAX format came from the blockbuster Oppenheimer.
A US news outlet, Unilad, reported that promoting the film, The Rock recalled watching the Oscar-winning film with its director, Christopher Nolan.
In a recent video interview with IMAX, The Rock said, “I was midway through shooting Red One, I had an opportunity to go watch Oppenheimer, and I watched it in the IMAX theatre where Christopher Nolan watches and screens his movies – him and Emma, his wife.”
During the movie, he said an idea entered his mind about why not go for an IMAX release for his Christmas movie.
“And I even asked, ‘Let me sit where Chris is sitting.’ So they said, ‘Chris sits here to enjoy the movie.’ So I sat where Chris sat, I watched Oppenheimer, it was amazing,” the 52-year-old continues.
Oppenheimer is the story of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was appointed during WW2 to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists made the atomic bomb, finally finishing on July 16, 1945, and witnessed the world’s first-ever nuclear explosion.
While filming Red One, his new Christmas movie, Johnson had the opportunity to watch the biopic blockbuster on the same IMAX screen where Nolan watches his own films on IMAX.
