Yup. A real plane was crashed for Tenet. But why?

Christopher Nolan. That’s a name that truly means something in the film industry. He may be the only one out there who can command a $200 million budget on a wholly original idea. He’s all about that cinematic experience, and a part of that experience lies in doing visual effects as tangibly as possible. That’s been his forte for a while. Of course, you can’t avoid the use of CG these days with movies like his, but he does about as good of a job as one could expect.

As such, it was no surprise when we learned that he crashed a real 747 plane for his upcoming film Tenet. We’ve been down this path before with him. He’s all about practical effects when possible, and is also all about using actual film instead of digital for his movies. But why wouldn’t he go a different route? A filmmaker like him would certainly see the appeal of using miniatures, right? Well, it turns out Nolan did consider using a mix of miniatures and CG.

“I planned to do it using miniatures and set-piece builds and a combination of visual effects and all the rest,” Nolan told Total Film. “We started to run the numbers… It became apparent that it would actually be more efficient to buy a real plane of the real size, and perform this sequence for real in camera, rather than build miniatures or go the CG route.”

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Not gonna lie. I’m pretty sure Nolan went on to do a happy dance once he found out about those numbers. Whenever given the chance to do something for real, I’m sure he prefers it, and the fact the numbers support him probably made it doubly satisfying. At the very least, it’s impressed a lot of people involved in the film.

“You wouldn’t have thought there was any reality where you would be doing a scene where they just have an actual 747 to blow up! It’s so bold to the point of ridiculousness,” star Robert Pattinson also told the outlet. “I remember, as we were shooting it, I was thinking, ‘How many more times is this even going to be happening in a film at all?’”

Indeed, with CG being the main way special effects are accomplished these days, this may not happen any time in the near future.

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