Ryan Coogler’s New Vampire Film To Shoot On 65mm & IMAX Film
Ryan Coogler on set of Creed. Courtesy of Warner Bros.
Ryan Coogler’s Untitled Genre Thriller, which started production earlier this week, is set to be shot on Kodak 65mm film. This marks Coogler’s first feature shot on film since Fruitvale Station, his 2013 Sundance breakout film, which was shot on 16mm.
The film, which started production in New Orleans in early April, is currently untitled — or, at least, no title has been publicly unveiled — and is rumored to be period-set in the 1930s Jim Crow South and involve vampires in some form and will be shot off an original screenplay written by Coogler.
Coogler on set with a Panavision System 65 camera. Autumn Durald Arkapaw / Instagram.
The film stars Michael B. Jordan opposite himself as two vampires, backed by a supporting cast that includes Hailee Steinfeld and Delroy Lindo. Two-time Academy Award-winner Ludwig Göransson will score the film. Göransson won his first Oscar for 2018’s Black Panther and his second for Oppenheimer earlier this year.
Warner Bros. is set to distribute the film, a Proximity Media production, with Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian producing.
A new photo from the film’s camera tests shows a 65mm IMAX camera in the background. Ethansmcdonald / Instagram.
A photo posted to Instagram taken during the film’s camera tests not only highlights the Panavision System 65 camera, as seen above, but an IMAX 65mm camera — likely an IMAX MSM 9802 — in the background, suggesting the film will be shot in both formats, with a variable aspect ratio, similar to Oppenheimer.
The clapper for Ryan Coogler’s Untitled Project, marked with film stock information. Autumn Durald Arkapaw / Instagram.
Large format film, such as the 5-perf 65mm stock to be used on this production, has seen a resurgence following the success of films like Tenet and Oppenheimer, both shot and projected on celluloid and Dune: Part Two, which, while shot digitally, received film prints for IMAX 70mm theaters.
Other recent projects shot on 65mm include Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, and Christopher Nolan’s latest films, Dunkirk, Tenet, and Oppenheimer.
