Christopher Nolan gave up filming time for Oppenheimer in order to increase the budget for the production designer and recreate Los Alamos. The Cillian Murphy-starring film was originally planned t…
She continued, “Chris said, ‘Forget the money. Let’s just design what we want.’ So that’s what we did, and when construction first budgeted my town it was $20 million. Chris was like, ‘Yeah, no. Stop.’ We had this huge white model and I started pulling buildings out of it, not to mention we want to shoot in New York and New Jersey and Berkeley and Los Angeles and New Mexico.”
At one point, executive producer Tom Hayslip told De Jong that they would not be able to shoot in Berkley with the production designer adding, “But we have to go to Berkley. That is Oppenheimer!” “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.’ That is a lot of money we get back,” she said “At that point you feel like I have to deliver above and beyond because he just went and gave up his days. He, more than anyone, knows what he wants to get in every single day and how he wants to get it and he goes from 85 to 55 days.”was 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 the
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