Christopher Nolangave up filming time forOppenheimerin order to increase the budget for the production designer and recreate Los Alamos.
It felt like a $100 million indie, De Jong said.
This is notTenet[which was shot in 96 days].
(L-R) Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, Olli Haaskivi as Edward Condon, Matt Damon as Leslie Groves, Dane Dehaan is Kenneth NicholsMelinda Sue Gordon / Universal Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection
Not to mention I have to build Los Alamos, it doesnt exist.
Thats where I really felt like it was impossible.
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She continued, Chris said, Forget the money.
Lets just design what we want.
So thats what we did, and when construction first budgeted my town it was $20 million.
Chris was like, Yeah, no.
The producers were asking what I could do on my end to shrink [the budget].
Tom then comes into my office and says, Chris is going to shoot this in 55 days.
Murphy had previously talked about how fastOppenheimerwas shot saying that the pace of that was insane.
We made the movie unbelievably quickly.
We made it in 57 days.
The pace of that was insane, Murphy said on theWTF with Marc Maronpodcast.
The sets are huge, but it feels like being on an independent movie.
Theres no video village, theres no monitors, nothing.
Hes a very analog filmmaker.
