The plot of his next movie has been announced
The plot details for the next movie from Christopher Nolan’s next movie have been revealed, and fans are shocked.
If it was even possible, interest in the films of Nolan has taken yet another leap upwards following the release of Oppenheimer last year.
The film was Nolan’s most successful in several ways, making the most money of any of his non-Batman films, and winning him his first ever Best Director and Best Picture award at the Oscars.
As such, interest in his next film has gone stratospheric, which has only been accentuated by the incredible cast.
Nolan won his first two Oscars for Oppenheimer (Jeff Kravitz via Getty Images)
The cast of his next film is absolutely stacked. Full of actors familiar to Nolan and new ones who fans have been waiting for him to work with.
The cast is made up of Matt Damon, Lupita Nyong’o, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, and Robert Pattinson.
Hathaway and Damon are both multi-time Nolan veterans, while Pattinson appeared in one of his films, Tenet.
Theron and the A-list couple of Zendaya and Holland are all first time Nolan actors.
The film is set to be a massive departure from what fans have come to expect of Nolan, originally thought to be a remake of the 1983 film, Blue Thunder, it was revealed this week that the upcoming movie is set to be an adaptation of Homer’s (not that one) The Odyssey.
The epic poem is considered a foundational piece of literature, one of the most influential pieces of writing in history, and one of the oldest pieces of writing still studied to this day.
Nolan will reunite with Anne Hathaway for the film (Matthew Imaging via Getty Images)
Universal Pictures tweeted out: “Christopher Nolan’s next film The Odyssey is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film technology.
“The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX film screens for the first time and opens in theatres everywhere on July 17, 2026.”
Where Nolan’s previous films have been predominantly been Sci-Fi, such as Tenet and Interstellar, or grounded movies such as Oppenheimer or Dunkirk, this will be his first entry with a more fantasy, swords and sandals feel to it.
The story of The Odyssey (2,800 year old spoilers incoming) follows the story of Odysseus travelling home following the conclusion of the Trojan war.
In 2018 the BBC polled various different literature experts on the topic of ‘the 100 stories that shaped the world’, with The Odyssey topping the list, beating out classics such as Frankenstein, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Hamlet.
Nolan adapting the odyssey and inventing new imax technology to do so
Fans were equal parts ecstatic and shocked to hear the news, flocking to social media to share their thoughts.
One fan tweeted: “Christopher Nolan doing fantasy, this is all I could ever ask for”.
Another said: “nolan really is the only director left where every movie is an Event”.
A third tweeted: “Nolan spending the last decade of his career making films about the sin of abandoning your family to pursue your Own Story doing an adaption of the Odyssey feels so thematically resonant that I just started levitating”.
Another fan said: “Nolan better make The Odyssey 4 hours+ or some sh*t now he’s basically getting handed blank checks.?
The Odyssey will release in 2026.Featured Image Credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Angela Weiss/Getty
Topics: Christopher Nolan, Matt Damon, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Tom Holland, TV and Film, Film, Entertainment
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Updated 14:30 9 Oct 2024 GMT+1Published 13:11 9 Oct 2024 GMT+1
First details emerge for Christopher Nolan’s next big film as major star is cast
News about Nolan’s next project has come out, including who its potential lead actor could be
After dominating the Oscars with Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan apparently already has his eyes set on his next project.
His smash-hit biopic bagged seven wins in total for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy as the titular character and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., as Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss.
But Nolan is showing no signs of slowing down and is reportedly already working on his follow-up project.
Nolan, known for other blockbuster hits such as The Dark Knight, Inception and Interstellar among other titles, could be back with another industry-changing movie, returning to the studio he partnered with for Oppenheimer.
According to Deadline, the director will be working with Universal for his next film, with a release date and a Hollywood A-lister in talks to star. Universal didn’t provide comment when approached.
Nolan will be hoping to get a couple more of these under his belt (John Shearer/WireImage/Getty)
Obviously, similar to his previous projects, details of the plot are being kept under wraps, but sources have also detailed that the film might begin shooting early next year.
Industry experts thought the successful director would take his next film’s studio rights to market, but Universal always seemed to be the banker following the overwhelming success of Oppenheimer, grossing $977 million (£746.6 million) worldwide against a budget of $100 million (£76.4 million).
But that’s not the only news.
Cillian Murphy starred in the 2023 epic (Universal)
It has been said by sources that there are plans for an IMAX release on 17 July 2026, a date that lines up with several of Nolan’s past films with similar release dates.
Matt Damon is also reportedly in talks to star in the new film, which would mark the third time the actor and director have worked together on a project, as Damon played General Leslie Groves in Oppenheimer as well as astronaut Dr. Mann in Interstellar.
Will Nolan’s next project receive as much acclaim as Oppenheimer? (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
Nolan is known for trusting the same few actors with his projects, having partnered with the likes of Christian Bale and Cillian Murphy on at least three occasions.
If the news is true and the project is going ahead as planned, it would come as no surprise if the cast was as star-studded as the director’s previous flicks.
Don’t be shocked if a familiar face appears on screens come the summer of 2026 – we’ve already marked our calendars for 17 July.Featured Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images / Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images
Topics: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer, Matt Damon, Film, Celebrity
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Published 13:48 14 Dec 2024 GMT
Cillian Murphy explained why he always appears in Christopher Nolan’s movies
Cillian Murphy and Christopher Nolan have been collaborating for two decades
Whenever it breaks that Christopher Nolan is directing a new movie, a hefty group of fans get pretty excited. The bloke makes bangers, simple as.
And it’s fair to say his films have a lot of things in common from making whopper amounts of cash and being pretty complex to featuring major celebrities and scooping up awards.
On that celebrity note, plenty of them feature one particular actor: Cillian Murphy.
A frequent collaborator of Nolan’s, the 48-year-old has starred in the likes of Oppenheimer, The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception and Dunkirk.
And the Irishman previously explained why he appears in so much of the filmmaker’s work.
The pair have been collaborating for two decades (Dave Benett/Getty Images for BFI)
Ahead of his Oscar-winning performance in the titular role in Oppenheimer last summer, Murphy talked about his dedication to and admiration for Nolan.
He told The Guardian he will ‘always turn up’ for the director and will always take a role from him, regardless of the size.
“I’ll always turn up for Chris, whatever the size of the part. Chris will call me up and I’m there. Isn’t it wonderful that filmmakers are still making challenging, demanding films within the studio system, shot on film rather than Imax?” Murphy said.
“I think he’s flying the flag. Him, Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino, are fantastic filmmakers making interesting work on a massive scale.”
And the admiration is very much reciprocated with it coming as no surprise to many that Nolan names Murphy as one of his three favourite actors he’s ever worked with.
Appearing in six of his films, the filmmaker said of the Peaky Blinders star: “I’ve never seen an actor with such a commitment to the truth. But I’d never had him as the lead, so it was a thrill to be able to call him and say, ‘This is the one’.”
Murphy has been in six of Nolan’s films so far (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Nolan goes as far as to call the actor ‘one of the best of his generation’ as he added to Total Film: “I’ve always known since I first met him – however many years ago it is now, almost 20 years – that he is one of the great actors, not just of his generation, but of all time.”
When Murphy picked up a Golden Globe for Oppenheimer he was of course quick to praise the director in his acceptance speech.
“I knew the first time I walked on a Chris Nolan set it was different,” he said.
“I could tell by the level of vigour, focus, the level of dedication and the complete lack of seating options for actors.”
He then paid tribute to their collaboration of ‘20 years and six fecking pictures’.Featured Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association/Warner Bros.
Topics: Cillian Murphy, Christopher Nolan, Celebrity, TV and Film
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Published 15:04 2 Jul 2024 GMT+1
Fans blown away as true ending of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is finally explained
Despite the film being incredibly well received, many were a little confused by the ending…
Interstellar is arguably one of the best Christopher Nolan flicks to date, which called into question how far the human race would go for love and for survival.
But the ending has always left viewers with opposing ideas.
Was it all a dream? And did Matthew McConaughey’s character Cooper really die at the start of the flick?
Or were there aliens running around pulling the strings behind the scenes like puppet masters?
It turns out, both of those theories are wrong.
After a YouTube video by Looper was uploaded explaining the ending of the 2014 film, it all suddenly makes sense.
After the hoopla what was Miller’s Planet, and the emergence of the black hole, Gargantua, we can finally reveal what the ending truly meant.
Cooper is tasked with saving the world. Paramount Pictures
In a film which follows astronauts who are sent to outer space and through a worm-hole to explore potential planets that could rehabilitate human life, there is one main focus throughout.
Love.
Cooper, a farmer-turned-astronaut, has a deeply profound love for his teenage daughter, Murphy.
When he’s shot into space, it becomes clear throughout the journey that the only way to save the human race is by gathering data from inside of a black hole, but only one person can complete the task.
Cooper and Murph haven’t seen each other in decades. Paramount Pictures
Cooper decided to sacrifice himself by falling away from the craft in his own little ship, descending into Gargantua’s gravitational pull which somehow transports him into a library of memories about his daughter.
This ‘Tesseract’ allows Cooper to go back to moments in time to provide his daughter clues and information pertaining to the black hole, which could save the entire race.
It’s a moment which allows Cooper to realise that the Tesseract was created by super advanced future humans who want him to communicate with his daughter and that he was his daughter’s ghost all along.
In the end, it was love. Paramount Pictures
In the end, the main point of the ending is his love for his daughter, and his immense regret for leaving her and missing her entire life to save humanity.
His love becomes a sort of homing beacon which allows him to use the Tesseract to convey the information about the black hole, enabling Murph to crack the code of gravity manipulation, which dgoes on to set the course for humanity’s exodus from Earth.
Cooper is then thrown from the Tesseract, which crumples in on itself and teleported by these advanced beings to a camp near Saturn, where he finds out that the plan worked and that humans are spread out across the universe in various pods.Play
But now due to the time lapse, Murph is an old woman and on her deathbed, where the two reunite after decades.
It’s a really touching scene and I’m sure many who watched it in the cinemas bawled when she told him to leave before he had to watch her die.
In the end, it was his love for his daughter, life and humanity that set the course for the entire plot.Featured Image Credit: Paramount Pictures
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Published 17:08 23 Jan 2024 GMT
Christopher Nolan’s most divisive movie is available to watch on Netflix now
The director is a giant of Hollywood but fans don’t love every film
When you hear the name Christopher Nolan, you think big, expensive films with complex plots and Hollywood’s finest actors.
The English-American director has once again received critical acclaim for his work, with Oppenheimer leading the pack with the most nominations at the 2024 Oscars.
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The Cillian Murphy-fronted biopic has been nominated for Best Picture, while Nolan scored nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay and Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Robert Downey Jr. earned acting nods.
It follows on from a cluster of wins at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards earlier this month.
The winners will be announced at the 96th Academy Awards ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel on 10 March.
The Dark Knight trilogy put Nolan on the world stage following a number of independent releases, including Memento.
There has also been Oscar-winning Inception, Interstellar and Dunkirk, with all three loved by viewers and critics alike.
But there’s one movie that continues to divide viewers after being released four years ago.
Available to watch right now on Netflix, the film in question is Tenet.
Starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Elizabeth Debicki, Tenet is set in a world of international espionage.
An unnamed CIA operative, known as The Protagonist, is recruited by a mysterious organisation called Tenet to participate in a global assignment that unfolds beyond real time.
The mission is to prevent Andrei Sator, a renegade Russian oligarch with precognitive abilities, from starting World War III. The Protagonist will soon master the art of ‘time inversion’ as a way of countering the threat that is to come.
Trippy, but classic Nolan in so many ways.
But the film wasn’t well received, with a Peloton instructor even badmouthing the flick while Nolan himself took part in the class. Ouch.
Speaking earlier this month, Nolan said: “I was on my Peloton. I’m dying. And the instructor started talking about one of my films and said, ‘Did anyone see this? That’s a couple hours of my life I’ll never get back again!’”
One of the biggest criticisms was following the timeline; some found it difficult to keep track of what on earth was actually going on.
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One person wrote on X: “I’ve never been so confused walking out of a movie in my life. I legit don’t know what happened over the past 2.5 hours.
“I really enjoyed Inception and followed the plot easily with no issues. This one? I was kinda lost 40 mins in and never quite knew where it was headed.”
Another added: “Just seen Tenet and i’m feeling very confused… can’t decide what to feel about it? It looked and sounded good but i’m genuinely not sure what just happened.”
Critics were equally a bit confused.
Christy Lemire, from FilmWeek, wrote: “I am a big fan of [Christopher Nolan’s] films – I usually enjoy the time puzzle of it – but this seems even more intentionally inaccessible and challenging than everything else… confusing, distancing, and chilly.”
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The film is by no means a flop, boasting a 69 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 76 percent audience score.
Isaac Feldberg, from Inverse, said: “Nolan prioritises the dense audiovisual spectacle of his most narratively complex films. Beyond the intellectual, they exist primarily, and more accessibly, as experiences. Put another way, Tenet is a vibe.”
The problem for many watching is they expect the best with Nolan and on this occasion, its clear some think he fell short of the standards he’d already set.
Put another director’s name on the flick and we might look at it very differently.
Tenet can be streamed on Netflix now.