After more than 60 years of dormancy, the VistaVision film format made a comeback last year with Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” marking the first time since Marlon Brando’s “One-Eyed Jacks” in 1961 that a film had been fully shot using VistaVision cameras. Yorgos Lanthimos somewhat kickstarted this trend by shooting select scenes of 2022’s “Poor Things” in VistaVision.
M. Night Shyamalan is now the latest filmmaker to embrace the film format. Confirmed by DP Adolpho Veloso, Shyamalan’s “Remain” will be shot in VistaVision which is surely meant as a wink and nod to the Hitchcock-inspired film.
This means that, over the coming year, six films are planned to utilize the format. Whether this signals a true resurgence or just a fleeting interest remains to be seen However, directors like Shyamalan, Greta Gerwig, Emerald Fennell, Paul Thomas Anderson, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Yorgos Lanthimos all have VistaVision-shot projects scheduled for release in 2025 and 2026.
“Remain,” which stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor, starts filming this summer and is set to hit theaters on October 23, 2026.