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Targaryenheimer? 😎🔥

This unexpected link between Westeros and World War II comes to us from the official making-of book, Unleashing Oppenheimer: Inside Christopher Nolan's Explosive Atomic-Age Thriller (now on sale from Insight Editions), written by Jada Yuan. For the scenes where J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) and General Leslie Groves (Matt Damon) travel the country, recruiting scientists for the top-secret Manhattan Project, executive producer Thomas Hayslip worked out a deal with Skyway Rail, a New Mexico-based company co-founded by Martin. 

^^^ That should be Sky Railway – not Skyway Rail. But the link to the company is correct.

George R.R. Martin does live in New Mexico where his railroad is located. And Los Alamos, site of the Manhattan Project, is just 34 miles/55 km by road from Santa Fe where we find GRRM and the depot of his rail line. So there are solid connections.

The agreement allowed Nolan & Co. to temporarily commandeer a track and two train cars ("painted with murals of wolves and dragons," of course) that regularly run between the cities of Lamy and Santa Fe. "The producer also found two vintage Pullman cars in Santa Fe for the sequence — a dining car and another with a lounge area and a sleeper compartment," writes Yuan. "Both just needed a little work to make them period-correct. The production team would also add a flat car and another 'dragon car' to the mix to carry crew, equipment, and background actors. Nolan would shoot interiors for two cross-country sequences — Santa Fe to Boston, and Princeton to Santa Fe — aboard the Pullman cars, while a trip from Berkeley to D.C. would be shot in one of Martin’s 'dragon cars.' In order to film exteriors, Nolan would place a camera at the back of the Pullman cars facing forward toward the engine, thereby focusing only on the period correct part of the train. If any of the engine’s dragon murals were visible on camera, they’d be edited out in postproduction."

Dragons were the weapons of mass destruction of GoT and HotD. So a "dragon car" being used in Oppenheimer sounds right.

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Beautiful morning sky

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roundtrip

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相模鉄道 湘南台 ゆめが丘 今田遊水地 横浜市泉区 花壇

YOKOHAMA NAVYBLUE 10000系 12000系

富士フィルム X-Pro2 XF35mmF2R WR

※近隣のモールにてランチ：大戸屋のさばの炭火焼きと鶏竜田揚げ※

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Gare de l'Est — Station of the East (Paris Est)

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No.464 Yokosuka 8 views

Liveing with the Keikyu line

Keikyu line in Yokosuka city.

Archive;series 8 views No.460~

No.464　横須賀八景

京急と暮らす-京急線

アーカイブ:八景シリーズ　No.460～

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Canada (2) (3) by Rebecca Delaney

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(10 Morants Curve (2) Lake Louise     

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東海道新幹線 新横浜 小田原 N700s みはらし広場 神崎遺跡 綾瀬市

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撮影してる最中にも、風に舞い、ひらひらと舞い落ちる

※近隣のファミレスにてランチ：ガストの若鶏のグリル ガーリックソースランチ※

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The mainline west to Penzance, Hayle, Cornwall /Kernow

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