Dwayne Johnson Says ‘Red One’ Needs Imax Screens Like Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’: “With This Technology Could Be Game Over”

Dwayne Johnson is pleased with his latest movie, Red One, and believes it should be released on Imax screens like Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

In an interview, the Black Adam actor said that he watched Nolan’s World War II epic in the same Imax screening room the director uses to screen his films. After experiencing Nolan’s film on Imax, he felt Red One would be a “game changer” if screened the same way.

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“With Red One, our intention was to make a movie that you can enjoy on the biggest screen possible,” Johnson told Imax in an interview. “Legitimately, the biggest screens possible are Imax. I was midway through shooting Red One and I had an opportunity to see Oppenheimer. I watched in the Imax theater where Christopher Nolan watches and screens his movies. Him and Emma [Thomas], his wife. I even asked to let me sit where Chris sits. They said, ‘Chris sits here.’”

He continued, “I watch Oppenheimer. It was amazing, but I was thinking: ‘Holy shit. Red One on this screen and with this technology could be game over.’ I remember texting [director Jake Kasdan] a picture of my bare chest and a picture of the screen and we realized how cool [Imax] would be.”

Red One is a film directed by Jake Kasdan. It was originally greenlit for streaming, but Amazon MGM shifted to a theatrical release after it tested well. The film follows Johnson’s Callum Drift, the head of North Pole security, as he teams up with a bounty hunter to find a kidnapped Santa Claus.

Johnson’s co-stars include Chris Evans, JK Simmons, Lucy Liu, Kiernan Shipka, Bonnie Hunt, Nick Kroll, Kristofer Hivku, and Wesley Kimmel.

The film was released internationally On November 6, earning $27M in its opening weekend.

Red One will open in U.S. theaters on November 15.

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