For Nope, Peele worked with the director of photography Hoyte Van Hoytema, who used the format on three Christopher Nolan movies, Interstellar, Dunkirk, and ...
So, get to the cinema, if you can, to see Nope before it flies off to smaller screens. When the image jumps to fill that huge screen, form floor to ceiling, it’s something truly special, and truly draws you into the story. If you’re lucky enough to be able to see it in a dual laser IMAX location, you’ll be able to enjoy the 12-channel sound with height speakers, which takes full advantage of the mix. It’s a great way to transition from one aspect ratio to another and helps sell the emotion of that moment.” I felt compelled to do so as while the former has a 1.90:1 aspect ratio screen, the latter is the only screen in the county that can display the movie in what IMAX’s head of post-production, Bruce Markoe, refers to as the “hero” format – as in the ultimate version of the movie that the director would want you to see it in – namely the full frame 1.43:1 aspect ratio. As Markoe explained to me in an interview, IMAX was the perfect format for a movie such as Nope.