Christopher Nolan Recreating Nuclear Blast Without CGI Alarms Social Media

For those who aren't aware, Christopher Nolan (the director behind The Dark Knight trilogy) has a famous preference for practical effects over CGI.

So much so, in fact, that social media now fears that Nolan will destroy the world in pursuit of an accurate nuclear blast and fallout effects as part of his upcoming film Oppenheimer, which apparently requires such scenes.

It was reported that Nolan, still filming integral scenes for the film, was able to recreate the first nuclear weapon detonation without the use of CGI, which began to spread fast as such a feat seems impossible to do off the simple premise of how powerful nuclear explosions are.

“Oppenheimer” Has A Non-CG Atomic Blast https://t.co/9GkvPV9Gbg pic.twitter.com/32ErH09XI8

— Garth Franklin (@darkhorizons) December 12, 2022

@mavericksmovies DID I JUST CALL IT?! 😭

After nearly two years of making jokes and predicting that Christopher Nolan would literally detonate something with the blast power of a nuke for Oppenheimer, I'm worried the mad man actually did it. 😭 https://t.co/N2Fk7S6oxR pic.twitter.com/ZnKaq3h6qL

— Christian Hannah (@TheHannahcast) December 12, 2022

Christopher Nolan opted not to use computer-generated effects for the upcoming atomic bomb origin story “Oppenheimer.” That’s right: Nolan literally blew things up: https://t.co/4ON5dwfLh5 pic.twitter.com/Hzu03UzS65

— IndieWire (@IndieWire) December 12, 2022

Previous knowledge of Nolan's penchant for doing things as authentically as possible, combined with the source material of the movie being literal nuclear devastation and bombs, led to many social media users fearposting as though Nolan was directly planning on recreating other integral scenes via actual nuclear weapons.

These posts and memes then started to devolve into talking about the cast and crew that would be subject to nuclear blasts, ending with the fear that Nolan would ironically drop two more bombs on Japan as part of the filming process.

Me when I see the atomic fallout kill my family because Nolan didn’t want to use CGI #Oppenheimer pic.twitter.com/6smhOKFREw

— FaKe silva 🇾🇪 (@FaKeSilva5) December 12, 2022

Nolan when his entire crew dies from fallout but oppenheimer wins best picture pic.twitter.com/ZPOmyqejW7 https://t.co/KJieMyZQXv

— Jason 🦥 (@spongebobsloth) December 12, 2022

christopher nolan as he and his crew are consumed by radiation because he wanted to film a nuclear bomb going off in reverse pic.twitter.com/bY1S7YHgt2

— zook (@zooklife) December 12, 2022

Christopher Nolan after killing every single person on the planet so he can accurately show an atomic bomb explosion without cgi pic.twitter.com/wl6bgEpgeF

— Le Cinéphiles (@LeCinephiles) December 12, 2022