With Get Out and Us, Jordan Peele has established himself as one of the most exciting managers of the moment. As such, his new film Nope was highly anticipated. Released in the United States on July 22, 2022, in an old-school era. , here in the UK, it will be mandatory to wait until August 22 to see this summer blockbuster.
And it’s a box office success, because Peele worked with cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet cinematographer, to shoot parts of the film with IMAX cameras, making it the first horror film to do so. A combination of horror and sci-fi, it makes sense that they turn to the IMAX movie to bring to the screen the epic scale Peele is looking for.
Up to 47 minutes of your film is shot in full-frame 1. 43:1 IMAX, providing incredibly detailed image quality with a much larger frame than a normal widescreen image, with more image data at the top and bottom.
However, getting to see it in this format will not be easy. Few IMAX cinemas can provide 1. 43:1 full-frame IMAX images. First, due to the overload and physical complexity, no 15/70 film copies were made for Nope; it will only be projected digitally. This means it takes two things to see Nope in all its glory: a cinema screen with a 1. 43:1 aspect ratio and a display with an IMAX GT laser projector that, thanks to its dual laser setup, gives enough canopy brightness. the largest filter.
The LFE Examiner online page comprises a list of displays around the world that offer this: the magic word you’re looking for is 1570 DL2, for dual laser, which tells you that you can assign a 15/70mm symbol and will have a 1. 43:1 display. However, some cinemas will have a 1. 43:1 screen but won’t have a 15/70mm film mapping, so it’s not transparent at a glance on the online page if any of the things are present.
While in the U. S. In the US many other people have already had the opportunity to watch Nope in 1. 43:1, here in the UK there will only be one option: IMAX View at Manchester Printworks, which has the demonstration and dual laser virtual projector required. . . At the time of writing, it had not yet been proven that it would be displayed in 1. 43:1, but we can only hope.
London, of course, has two screens with 1. 43:1 capacity, but unfortunately neither will show Nope in full screen. The Science Museum, for reasons that are unclear, has to prevent advertising films from being shown, which is a blatant embarrassment given its capabilities, while the BFI IMAX does not yet have an IMAX Laser film projector; just a 15/70mm IMAX movie projector with little to show. Rather, it pokes fun at its claim to be the UK’s biggest screen, as this is only true when a film is screened in 1. 43:1 format, which happens very rarely. I wonder, the next release of your movie projector will probably be Chripreventher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, in July 2023.
For Londoners, the option will be the Cineworld IMAX in Leicester Square, which is very giant (26. 5 m to 15. 6 m), if limited to a facet ratio of 1. 90:1.
As an option for IMAX, the film can be seen on Dolthrough Vision. Although it’s just a popular 2. 39:1 aspect ratio, Dolthrough’s presentations offer glorious image and sound and are still incredibly convenient, which doesn’t hurt. IMAX presentations, through comparison, vary greatly in the convenience department.
By the way, there are rumors that the London BFI is no longer operated through Odeon, it is about investing in a laser projector that would put it back in the most sensible of the list for IMAX in the United Kingdom. It is still very close to rumor territory, but there is hope here.