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In 'Inception' (2010), approximately how long is the hallway fight sequence that was filmed on a 100-foot rotating set?
Answer
4 minutes
The celebrated zero-gravity hallway fight in 'Inception' runs approximately 4 minutes on screen. To achieve the effect, production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas built a 100-foot corridor mounted on a gimbal that could rotate a full 360 degrees.
💡 Did you know?
The spinning hallway fight in Inception required a 100-foot rotating set that took 10 days to film just one 4-minute sequence.
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- 90 seconds
- 8 minutes
- 12 minutes
Topics
- inception
- christopher-nolan
- filmmaking
- production-design
- 2010s
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