I hate to say it, but I can see that figure being accurate. When you take into account the larger size fixtures on film sets (20K+ Xenon fixtures), the amount of strobes and Lightening
Strike machines that were more than likely used, you start eating up amps mighty fast. Some of the Xenon fixtures take straight
feeder, the others will take a 100A
bates connector. Also, take into account needing to
strike multiple HIGH amperage arc fixtures. You can only
power up so many fixtures before you run out of head room on the generator to have enough amperage/
voltage to
strike the next.
Also, please note they probably didn't use that many amps, but were capable of generating that. On generators, as you all know, its very important to balance the load across the phases. On film sets, they do a LOT of partitioning to make sure the genies aren't over working themselves, are completely balanced,
etc. I'm sure they had a bunch of dummy loads out back to keep the genies all balanced and such. Also, given this is such a high
profile movie and they had a huge budget, I can imagine them over ordering on generators to make SURE they never overloaded them, and never had one go down during shooting. If you've ever had a generator go down during the middle of a take, you know what I'm talking about.
Still, that's just a silly amount of
power. Would love to watch the behind the scenes footage.