As with The Rock‘s in-ring persona, an IMAX display screen is seemingly bigger than life.
This week marks the discharge of the Christmas action-adventure Purple One, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The movie itself can be obtainable for viewing on customary film screens, in addition to 4DX and IMAX. In a brand new video posted to the Twitter account, Johnson spoke about his earlier expertise with the IMAX display screen, particularly when watching the 2023 hit film Oppenheimer.
“With Purple One, our intention was to make a film you can take pleasure in on the most important display screen attainable. Legitimately the most important screens attainable, nicely, they’re IMAX. I used to be halfway by capturing Purple One. I had a possibility to go watch Oppenheimer, and I watched it within the IMAX theater the place Christopher Nolan watches and screens his film, him and Emma, his spouse. I even requested, ‘Let me sit the place Chris is sitting,’ so that they stated Chris sits right here to benefit from the film. So I sat the place Chris sat. I watched Oppenheimer, it was wonderful. However I used to be considering, ‘Holy s***, this factor, Purple One on this display screen with this expertise may be sport over.’
“I keep in mind texting [director] Jake [Kasdan] and I despatched him an image first of my naked chest, after which I despatched him an image of the display screen. We simply had an amazing dialog afterwards about simply how cool it’s going to be. It’s going to be very cool.”
What’s Purple One about?
In Purple One, Johnson portrays the North Pole’s Head of Safety, who’s tasked with saving Christmas when Santa Claus (aka Purple One) is kidnapped. To do that, Johnson should crew up with the world’s most notorious bounty hunter, performed by Chris Evans.
Purple One formally hits theaters on November 15, 2024.
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