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.