Tenet Director Christopher Nolan Reveals That His Film’s Plane Crash Is Very Real

Christopher Nolan is a director who is given a lot of leeway over the projects he’s allowed to make within the Hollywood studio system, and the latest news about his upcoming movie, Tenet, serves as a great example of this.

In the latest cover story for Total Film magazine (as summarized on Gamesradar), for a scene involving a plane crashing into a hangar–which is alluded to in the film’s second trailer–Nolan decided that the best way to get the stunt on film was to simply buy a Boeing 747 and then crash it.

Nolan says in the interview that he originally “planned to do it using miniatures and set-piece builds and a combination of visual effects and all the rest,” but once he calculated costs, he decided that it would “be more efficient” to buy and crash a real plane on camera.

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