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Post by ck100 on Sept 10, 2021 0:55:13 GMT
Christopher Nolan Bombshell: Director Talking To Multiple Studios On Film He’ll Direct About J. Robert Oppenheimer & Development Of The A-Bomb In WWII
"Christopher Nolan is readying his next film, and Deadline hears that like Dunkirk it will focus on a seminal moment in World War II. This one is J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atom bomb during WWII. Here is a bombshell development: While none of Nolan’s recent movies had gone outside Warner Bros, I’m hearing that several of the major studios across town are reading the screenplay and speaking with Nolan and his reps.
This might be residue from the umbrage Nolan took when WarnerMedia declared its intention to go day-and-date with its entire 2021 movie slate, without forewarning talent, their reps or even the studio’s financing partners in the films. Nolan, among the superstar directors who are the most vociferous supporters of a good old fashioned theatrical release, was outspoken in his ire on WarnerMedia’s move. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Warner Bros is among the studios in the mix on this, but clearly it has lost pole position.
Warner Bros followed Nolan’s directives in releasing his last film, Tenet, even though the film’s grosses suffered because the pandemic was still raging, and moviegoers weren’t ready to return to theaters en masse at that point. The film still grossed $363 million, the biggest global number since the pandemic erupted outside F9, Godzilla Vs. Kong and Black Widow. Nolan and his wife/producing partner Emma Thomas did not have a formal deal at the studio, but like Clint Eastwood, they have been very loyal about making their films there. Those collaboration led to billions in box office receipts.
Details are a bit scant at the moment on casting, but I’m hearing talk that Cillian Murphy might be involved. He collaborated with Nolan on two of The Dark Knight films, Inception as well as Dunkirk, and is in the mix. The project has the sweep of Nolan’s last historical epic Dunkirk, looking at WWII from the development of the atomic bombs that ended the war with Japan. So there will clearly be many big star parts.
Stay tuned."
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 10, 2021 1:28:19 GMT
I’m hearing talk that Cillian Murphy might be involved. He collaborated with Nolan on two of The Dark Knight films That's a weird way to put it. So Nolan is making a movie about a guy who developed technology that he feared the destructive capabilities of. I wonder if there's any allegorical subtext with cinema there. |
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Post by politicidal on Sept 10, 2021 2:11:36 GMT
Hmm. If Nolan was going to return to the historical genre, particularly World War Two, I kind of wish he’d pick something more obscure or unusual. But I was skeptical about him doing Dunkirk and after seeing how he handled that movie, I will wait and see.
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 10, 2021 2:22:52 GMT
Hmm. If Nolan was going to return to the historical genre, particularly World War Two, I kind of wish he’d pick something more obscure or unusual. But I was skeptical about him doing Dunkirk and after seeing how he handled that movie, I will wait and see. I would personally love to see him tackle this part of history. It may be a very very known part of history, but there really hasn't been many movies about the creation of the atomic bomb, that I have heard of anyway. The only one I have heard of and seen is Fat Man and Little Boy. You know he is going to add his Nolan style of storytelling to it and with a movie about the atomic bomb I am very exited to see what he does with that.
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Post by Winston Wolfe on Sept 10, 2021 2:25:25 GMT
Well, at least we know it can’t be worse than Tenet.
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Post by vegalyra on Sept 10, 2021 2:38:55 GMT
Sounds interesting. Especially the studio politics.
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Post by hi224 on Sept 10, 2021 3:04:24 GMT
I love Cillian Murphy having a shot at a leading role.
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Post by sdrew13163 on Sept 10, 2021 6:22:14 GMT
He can make it good for sure, but it’s slightly concerning to see something so much smaller (in theory) than his last six movies.
Might mean he’s settling since him and WB are feuding.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 10, 2021 7:35:24 GMT
He can make it good for sure, but it’s slightly concerning to see something so much smaller (in theory) than his last six movies. Might mean he’s settling since him and WB are feuding. I'm actually excited for something smaller from Nolan again. Memento and The Prestige are some of his best movies. I don't think this is the end of his blockbuster days. |
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Post by hi224 on Sept 10, 2021 8:05:55 GMT
He can make it good for sure, but it’s slightly concerning to see something so much smaller (in theory) than his last six movies. Might mean he’s settling since him and WB are feuding. I'm actually excited for something smaller from Nolan again. Memento and The Prestige are some of his best movies. I don't think this is the end of his blockbuster days. All this pretty much. |
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Post by Jason143 on Sept 10, 2021 11:01:07 GMT
Okay this project of his excites me for the first time since Interstellar. Dunkirk was good but I felt Nolan wanted to make that movie only to please the critics who had been mixed on his last 2 films prior and try for some Academy awards. Then he went back to his usual box of tricks to make Tenent, which I hated because he went too overboard in his attempt to try and mindbend the audience instead of making a movie with a coherent plot and good characters.
This new pitch however seems interesting. Nolan will be confined in the ways he will have to mirror real life events (which is a good thing after Tenet) but also has the potential to spice up the characters, plot and story. Kinda like what Tarintino does with his loose-adapted fictional versions of real life events. I'm in.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Sept 10, 2021 11:24:23 GMT
As Nolan prefers practical effects instead of CGI, he will likely use an actual A-Bomb when filming.
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Post by politicidal on Sept 10, 2021 13:17:51 GMT
As Nolan prefers practical effects instead of CGI, he will likely use an actual A-Bomb when filming. I’m listening… |
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Sept 10, 2021 13:20:23 GMT
As Nolan prefers practical effects instead of CGI, he will likely use an actual A-Bomb when filming. I’m listening… Gotta get it in one take.
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Post by sdrew13163 on Sept 10, 2021 18:47:19 GMT
He can make it good for sure, but it’s slightly concerning to see something so much smaller (in theory) than his last six movies. Might mean he’s settling since him and WB are feuding. I'm actually excited for something smaller from Nolan again. Memento and The Prestige are some of his best movies. I don't think this is the end of his blockbuster days. That should be the way it is, but the movies are different now and even if it’s a critical/audience hit, if it doesn’t make money as a smaller drama then there’s no way he’ll ever see Tenet or Dunkirk or Interstellar dollars ever again. I’m still excited, though. Seems like this is the earliest he’s announced a new project off the heels of the release of a prior one. Though I guess he’s been done with Tenet for probably well over a year now since the pandemic pushed it back one million times. |
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Post by hi224 on Sept 10, 2021 22:48:31 GMT
Would be cool if named something like trinity maybe.
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Sept 11, 2021 5:15:59 GMT
Ackbar is intrigued.
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Post by dwightmachinehead on Sept 11, 2021 11:22:55 GMT
It could be his first bomb.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 11, 2021 12:11:12 GMT
Hmm. If Nolan was going to return to the historical genre, particularly World War Two, I kind of wish he’d pick something more obscure or unusual. But I was skeptical about him doing Dunkirk and after seeing how he handled that movie, I will wait and see. It may be a very very known part of history, but there really hasn't been many movies about the creation of the atomic bomb, that I have heard of anyway. The only one I have heard of and seen is Fat Man and Little Boy. In 1947, MGM released The Beginning Or the End under the direction of studio jack-of-all-genres Norman Taurog, which tells the same story as Fat Man and Little Boy in a manner so similar that it seems almost a blueprint for the later film. Surprisingly candid for the period, it had Brian Donlevy as Gen. Groves, Hume Cronyn as Oppenheimer and a cast drawn from studio players such as Robert Walker, Tom Drake (playing what would become the John Cusack role in the later film), Audrey Totter, Hurd Hatfield, Barry Nelson and a collection of familiar character players - Joseph Calleia, Henry O'Neill, Jonathan Hale, Richard Haydn, John Litel, Warner Anderson and Ludwig Stössel among them - as various real-life or fictional-but-representative characters. Perhaps the most significant difference from Fat Man is the brief, optimistic note upon which it concludes, extolling the imagined miraculous promise of nuclear power for the future (and without which one might guess it would never have gotten either a green-light or government cooperation). Overall, though, it's a pretty decent film benefiting from the immediacy of the then-recent history it relates.
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Post by Lux on Sept 11, 2021 13:01:59 GMT
Hmm. If Nolan was going to return to the historical genre, particularly World War Two, I kind of wish he’d pick something more obscure or unusual. But I was skeptical about him doing Dunkirk and after seeing how he handled that movie, I will wait and see. Dunkirk was mediocre garbage and extremely overrated this bomb movie is the film he should've made instead of Dunkirk. It actually sounds good and I'm not a fan of World War films because you know how they're going to end anyway. So for me to be excited for a War movie is pretty big news... Bigger than this announcement. |
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