Christopher Nolan bought a real decommissioned Boeing 747 to crash into a building for Tenet. It was cheaper than building a set.
The plane was a former Cathay Pacific freighter parked at an aircraft boneyard in Victorville, California. Nolan's crew towed it across the airfield with trucks and drove it straight into a structure on camera. Nolan called it "kind of an impulse buy." The VFX team mostly just removed the tow ropes in post.
The whole film has fewer than 300 visual effects shots for a $205 million production. For comparison, a typical Marvel film exceeds 2,000.
John David Washington had to relearn every physical movement for the inverted sequences, including consciously controlling when he blinked.
People on Backlot are watching it right now. It rewards a second viewing if you missed it when it came out.
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