It was an undeniably impressive work of production design... until somebody builds a bigger fake town
production designer Ruth De Jong dropped another funny Nolan anecdote—that also happens to reveal how far Nolan is willing to go to make sure his movies are made. The sticking point for De Jong was building the movie’s version of the Los Alamos community where Oppenheimer and his team developed the atomic bomb, which De Jong figured would be “impossible.” Here’s how it turned out:
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.”Funny! “Do whatever you want, don’t worry about the money… Oh no, that’s too much money!” This was all in addition to shooting on location in places like Berkley and New Mexico that were crucial to the real story of J.
De Jong felt extra pressure to “deliver above and beyond” because of the sacrifices Nolan was willing to make, which evidently worked out well for everyone, and De Jong said that the only real concession that the production had to make was to film some Washington D.C. scenes at the set in New Mexico because Nolan couldn’t get permission to film in actual government buildings.
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