A few days ago, Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer
began post production, and we know that it won't be long before we'll be seeing the traditional
release of the teaser trailer for this highly anticipated film.
Nolan has always followed a template when it comes to the first looks at his blockbuster
efforts, and based on releases this month and other interesting
details, I think we may very likely be seeing the first teaser trailer for the film.
In this video, I'm going to be discussing the potential trailer release date of Christopher
Nolan's Oppenheimer, alongside whether the film could
be having a IMAX Prologue later in the year too.
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But without further a do, lets dive into the likely trailer date
for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer.
So on a few of my recent Oppenheimer community posts and comments on my videos, I've had
viewers discussing when the potential trailer for Christopher Nolan's film could come out.
And this is because there's a traditional template
that Nolan tends to follow with the release of every blockbuster project he makes.
Since The Dark Knight, Nolan's previous studio, Warner
Bros, have released the first teaser trailer for his films around exactly a year before
the release date, and they are usually released online.
Other than the TENET teaser which was only shown in theatres in front of Hobbs and Shaw
back in 2019, most of the trailers have had online releases.
Dunkirk which like Oppeneheimer had a $100 million budget, released it's teaser
trailer online on August 4th 2016, and the film came out at the end of July in 2017.
So it's been around a year before for his last two theatrical releases.
And same thing goes for Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception
and The Dark Knight since 2008.
For all of them, the trailers have dropped between 11-12 months before the release date
of the actual films.
So that leaves us with the question of whether Oppenheimer will follow suite and will it
mean that we'll see the teaser trailer in July or August this year.
Well based on this history of Nolan teasers I think we might
be seeing that happen.
The one thing to keep in mind is that if this is going to happen again, will Nolan push
the theatrical release of this trailer like with TENET and if that's the
case, what film could it be shown in front of.
Well, I think that like with Dunkirk, we'll be seeing the first trailer in front of a
film, but also simultaneously released online.
I think he'll want to follow the sort of marketing campaign that Dunkirk had, because for a $100
million World War 2 film, it remains the highest grossing in history.
So for a World War 2 biopic of the same budget, I think he might follow this route.
So if he does go with this expected strategy, what film might the Oppenheimer trailer be
shown in front of and what could that tell us about the release date of it.
Well, I think there's only one big candidate for the whole of July
and August.
The only big IMAX film releasing in that time period is Jordan Peele's Nope, and if you
remember of an article from a few months ago, it was said that Christopher Nolan and
Jordan Peele are both working together to aid the development of new IMAX cameras.
Like all of Nolan's recent work, Oppenheimer has been
filmed with IMAX cameras and both him and Peele are trying to raise the bar with a new
camera that's being desribed as the future of blockbuster filmmaking.
So what better way to continue that collaboration by teasing a trailer
drop in front of Nope, which would also help Peele's big screen film releasing then July.
But the most telling think about this being the likely option, is that Nope releases on
July 22nd this year in the US, which is just under a year before Oppenheimer releases.
And the studio of both Nope and Oppenheimer is Universal
Pictures.
So for one it would fit the yearly pattern of Nolan's teaser trailers, two, Nope is the
only big IMAX film releasing in the next two months, 3, Nolan and Peele have a current
working collaboration when it comes to the future of IMAX and film, and 4, Universal
would want to tease what's coming in the future with them being the distributor of both films.
If I had to be honest, I think we will see something around July 22nd, but if Nolan and
Universal decide to go the Dunkirk route and just release it online instead, then it might
also come at the start of August.
So essentially between July the 22nd and the middle of August is when I think we might
be seeing the Oppenheimer teaser trailer release.
Again, I'm not talking about a full length trailer or an
IMAX prologue, I'm talking about the first look 1 minute teaser that Nolan traditionally
releases a year before.
But yes, we'll have to see if Nolan will once again follow that pattern,
and it has to be kept in mind that this is the first time he isn't with Warner Bros when
it comes to following that schedule.
Maybe it will be different with Universal Pictures and instead
they might drop the first trailer a bit later down the road, but I think with Nope also
being a Universal film, it makes this theory a lot
stronger, especially if Nolan is aiming to keep to that traditional trailer drop.
We'll soon find out but again, because of the decades of Nolan films following this
example, I'd put money on this being the option taken here
too.
Something else I thought I'd discuss while I mention it in this video, is the potential
for an IMAX prologue with Nolan's Oppenheimer.
Now I think most of us would assume that Nolan is
going to follow his other films and release an IMAX prologue around 6 months before the
release date of his film, which in this case would be this December.
Like the previously mentioned teaser trailer pattern, Nolan and his team
also have a structure for releasing the opening 5 to 6 minutes of IMAX footage from his films,
only in theatres and around half a year before they release.
And to be honest the best option that I can see for this if it happens with Oppenheimer,
would be Avatar: The Way Of Water in December.
You've got the sequel to the most successful film of all time and I think Nolan
would love that to be a target to impress audiences with the opening to his new film.
There are other options too, but nothing really comes
close to Avatar 2 in December, and with it also being an IMAX release, it would make
complete sense to show that here.
Now for all we know, there might not be a IMAX prologue since this
is more of a biopic film, but with Nolan choosing to shoot select sequences in IMAX, I can only
guess that there's going to be something here that calls for an early preview in the
format.
Universal did reveal that the IMAX in Oppenheimer would be black and white analogue photography
for the first time, so who's not to say that the IMAX footage is something action
based to correlate the many dialogue scenes with Cillian Murphy's Oppenheimer.
We'll have to see, but with the huge cast and the potential of this film and story,
I think were going to also see a big marketing campaign, and with
these rumoured strategies, I think it will begin very soon.
But that was my video discussing my and other fans theories on the trailer release date
and IMAX Prologue for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer.
We'll soon find out if the first trailer will release this month, but like I said,
Nolan has continuously followed this release pattern with every blockbuster film he's put
to screen, and I can personally see him doing the same
with Oppenheimer.
Again, I think the teaser trailer will release either on July 22nd with Jordan Peele's Nope
or at the start of August, and then I think the IMAX Prologue will be shown
before Avatar: The Way Of Water this December.
But that's just my early predictions on all of this early marketing for the film, and
I'm intrigued to hear what your thoughts are on
when the first teaser trailer for Oppenheimer will release.
So let me know down below in the comments section.
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