Chris Nolan Pisses Excellence
“[TENET is] an action epic evolving from the world of international espionage.”
Check out the trailer below:
Two things about this right off the bat:
- This is the minority James Bond that everyone really wants.
- This trailer bears repeat viewing to understand fully what’s going on.
In Nolan We Trust
Watching the trailer, it’s clear that this is in the same line as Inception, Memento, Prestige, and even Insomnia but it looks like he borrowed heavily from the Wachowski’s and their conception of car chases in Matrix: Reloaded.
The other thing that rings out is that we still don’t have a clear idea of the plot, other than it hinges on the word, “tenet” which still doesn’t mean anything.
Although Nolan went on the record to the trades a while ago:
“We’re jumping off from the point of view of an espionage film, but we’re going to a number of different places,” Nolan tells [the trades]. “We’re crossing a few different genres in a hopefully exciting and fresh way. [Producer] Emma [Thomas] and I have put together a lot of large-scale productions, but this is certainly the biggest in terms of international reach. We shot in seven countries, all over the place, with a massive cast and huge set pieces. There’s no question, it’s the most ambitious film we’ve made.”
Will This Have Legs At the Box Office, Though?
Yes.
Opening in mid-July, on the downside of the summer release schedule, Tenet won’t break Nolan’s pattern of having films with expensive budgets that make little revenues and struggle to be critical darlings, but it might get closer to the mark that Interstellar did.
A longer short is attached ahead of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in IMAX and Tenet will drop on July 17, 2020.
