Yahoo News Christopher Nolan crashed a real plane for Tenet as it was "more efficient"
Christopher Nolan's new film Tenet, which will be released in July, has been shrouded in secrecy.
There's not much known about the plot, other than it's set in the world of international espionage and features some kind of time manipulation that's not time travel.
But now we also know that it will feature a spectacular plane crash – which it achieved using a real 747.
Speaking to Total Film, Nolan revealed that during production the team realised it would be more cost-effective to crash a real plane than to create the scene using visual effects.
The director said he had planned to create the scene "using miniatures and set-piece builds and a combination of visual effects and all the rest," until his team discovered a massive array of old planes in Victorville, California.
"We started to run the numbers," Nolan said. "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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"It's a strange thing to talk about – a kind of impulse buying, I suppose," he continued. "But we kind of did, and it worked very well, with Scott Fisher, our special effects supervisor, and Nathan Crowley, the production designer, figuring out how to pull off this big sequence in camera. It was a very exciting thing to be a part of."
The film's star Robert Pattinson also couldn't believe a real plane was being used. "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!" he said.
"It's so bold to the point of ridiculousness... 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?'"
Tenet is set to arrive in UK and US cinemas on July 17, 2020.
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