Dwayne Johnson had an epiphany while he was watching Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer in IMAX that shaped the release of his Christmas movie Red One.

Dwayne Johnson is pleased with his latest movie, Red One, and believes it should be released on Imax screens like Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. In an interview, the Black Adam actor said that he watched Nolan’s World War II epic in the same Imax screening room the director uses to screen his films.

Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans wish you a very bro Christmas with “Red One,” full of slap fights, he-man snowmen and one jacked Santa. Director Jake Kasdan’s yuletide fantasy adventure (★★ out of four;

Dwayne Johnson treated the crew of his new holiday action film big time, says costar Chris Evans. In an interview with PEOPLE while promoting their new film Red One in Berlin, Evans, 43, said Johnson,

Dwayne Johnson said a screening of “Oppenheimer” in Imax inspired him to make sure his new Christmas action movie, “Red One,” would be able to play in the premium large format. Johnson sat in the same Imax screening room that Christopher Nolan uses to screen his movies and was blown away by “Oppenheimer.

Anyway, it is a testament to the enormous strangeness of the statement in question that Johnson has now said something that trips even our finely honed Dwayne Johnson bullshit detectors: Claiming he took even a modicum of inspiration for his “militarized Santa Claus bodyguard crew” movie Red One from Christopher Nolan’s biopic blockbuster Oppenheimer.

Dwayne Johnson has recently revealed that the inspiration behind releasing his upcoming movie Red One in IMAX was none other than Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The upcoming Jake Kasdan directorial features Chris Evans and JK Simmons alongside Johnson.