Hi /r/movies, I’m Salomão Abdala, director of 2DIE4, a film shot during the 24 hours of Le Mans. Studio heads deemed it “too risky”, and we’re now debuting in the biggest IMAX Theaters of the US!

We had this crazy idea, no studio would ever approve, they deemed too risky:

To create a racing film, shot in an actual race, with a real driver

A test to try to make the most authentic racing film ever made, by writing only the intro of the script, and letting the story unfold with the real life events that will happen during the race. One studio heads told me “you have one in a million chance of this working, if he crashes out in the first 10 minutes of the race you have no film”.

But there was something inside, driving us in an unsettling pursuit, to make our first film, and somehow, we weren’t scared of this enormous risk, we felt it was time to put everything on the line, to test ourselves.

With no studio or streaming to fund the project, we decided to self-fund the project, and go all-in, made some calls and secured Panavision support to the project, who allowed us to have large format cinema cameras and the same lenses Chris Nolan used on Oppenheimer and Tenet (the Panavision Sphero 65 and System 65). Contacted IMAX in the beginning of the project, to introduce the idea to them, they liked it but there was no way to guarantee that this was going to be the first Brazilian movie to be an IMAX Release, but if the film was good enough, there was a tiny chance – this was our green light.

Took the next flight to France, on the way to the biggest race in the world, the 24H of LeMans, to film a movie about a Porsche Driver putting his life on the line to achieve the overall victory.

-timejump to 2026-

 “2DIE4” trailer has hit over a million views on IMAX YT channel, beating many Hollywood blockbusters, And we’re now releasing it, in April 16th, in the biggest IMAX theaters in North America, including AMC Lincoln Square, Universal Citywalk, Metreon and others.

A very experimental film that we even tested a new proprietary technique for shooting anamorphic on 1.43:1 IMAX aspect ratio, which has never been done on an IMAX release, now becomes the first Brazilian film to be released in IMAX.

I cannot put into words how thankful I’m feeling now, this is just the beginning of a journey.

We had some preview screenings and some members of this sub and r/imax already made their reviews here and here.

Hope you guys can catch 2DIE4 in IMAX and would love to hear here what you think of this racing/indie/imax film we’ve created.

If you’re interested in watching in theaters, thank you very very much, you’re supporting independent cinema,

tickets link is here: https://www.imax.com/en/us/movie/2die4