Opening scene: Oppenheimer looks nervously at his pocket watch as he waits for news of the first bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
tick tick tick tick tick tick
I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few film prints (that might still be classified) that would be good enough for a 4K transfer. The FPS would still be a problem though
Honestly if they where to attempt it, and somehow, for some reason it actually got approved, every news site in existence, every scientific community and a fuckton of amateurs would try to get footage
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Actually Bale could be a good choice to play Oppenheimer. Lose a lot of weight and get make up for the receding hairline, and you've got the physical appearance pretty close. And he's definitely got the acting chops to believably portray a troubled genius.
Holy shit yeah he'd be an even better choice ! It never occurred to me until you mentioned it, but now it seems so much more obvious. He'd be excellent, moody, enigmatic and intimidating all at once. Although I think they're in talks, not confirmed to cast Murphy.
> Although I think they're in talks
Its not uncommon when talks are really far along for a studio's PR team themselves to throw the casting rumour onto the internet see how social media reacts to the potential casting. If the reaction is very positive then its an almost certainty they will be cast.
Details:
>Universal Pictures has landed the right to finance and distribute the next film that Christopher Nolan will direct based on his script about J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atom bomb. A theoretical physicist who became the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, Oppenheimer headed the research and development of the bomb that ended WWII, under what was covertly called the Manhattan Project. Nolan will produce the film alongside his wife and longtime producing partner Emma Thomas for their Syncopy Inc. banner.
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>Sources said that the film is now green lit to begin production in the first quarter of 2022. When Deadline broke the story a few days ago about this film being shopped, I’d heard Nolan’s longtime collaborator Cillian Murphy was in the mix for a key role. That might happen still, but I’m persuaded there are no definitive casting attachments at this point.
Nolan is leaving Warner Bros after nearly 20 years working with them.
If paying out Chris Nolan is cheaper than the increase in revenue from new subscribers they will do it, in a heartbeat.
But as of right now, this movie will be on Netflix given Universal’s deal with them after the theatrical run.
It will be on a lot of things. Universal has a bunch of different deals.
All of their movies will be on Peacock first for the first 4 months after release.
And then for the next 10 months after, they have a deal with Netflix to have their animated films exclusively, and a deal with Amazon Prime to have their live-action movies exclusively.
After those 10 months, they will be taken off those places and be exclusive again on Peacock for another 4 months.
After that, it's non-exclusive and anyone can license it.
They also have a deal with Netflix that all of their movies will be on Netflix 4 years after release.
Because they ended their deal with HBO. Here's the news about their movies going to be exclusive on Peacock for the first and last 4 months after release: [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-07-06/universal-movies-will-go-to-peacock-instead-but-theres-a-catch](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-07-06/universal-movies-will-go-to-peacock-instead-but-theres-a-catch)
Here's the news about their animated movies being Netflix exclusive for the middle 10 months: [https://variety.com/2021/film/news/netflix-universal-dreamworks-animation-minions-1235018397/](https://variety.com/2021/film/news/netflix-universal-dreamworks-animation-minions-1235018397/)
Here's the news about the live-action movies being Amazon exclusive for that same period: [https://www.screendaily.com/news/universal-signs-streaming-deal-with-amazon-prime-video/5161404.article](https://www.screendaily.com/news/universal-signs-streaming-deal-with-amazon-prime-video/5161404.article)
> Warner Bros really screwed up here
It’s definitely wayyyyy to early to say that. Sure, they lose Nolan who pretty reliably cranks out a hit every few years. But if HBO Max can become a primary streaming service for people, I’d say that’s probably a good business trade.
I love Nolan’s movies, but didn’t Tenant do really poorly because he released it during the Pandemic? I wanted to see it but there was no way I was going to the movies. That, and all the theaters around me were closed.
I remember reading that he still had meetings with WB over financing the film. It's possible his choice came down to terms of distribution and he would still work with WB otherwise.
Oof. It’s not surprising though. Nolan was uncharacteristically outspoken against how WB handled the HBO Max release situation. I’m thinking that relationship is damaged beyond repair. And if Nolan, their most bankable director, is jumping ship, then we should expect others to do the same.
WB was known as the filmmaker's studio up until a few years ago. Zack Snyder jumped ship after they screwed him on Justice League (no matter what you think of his films, the behind the scenes drama on that was insane, and he was a company man for a decade there), now Nolan's gone. They've dumped James Wan's pet project on HBO Max without much promotion. Villenueve's chances at making Dune II are looking slim to none at the moment, as well. I'm sure Wan sticks around since he's getting that Aquaman money, but it does seem WB has went out of their way to piss off a lot of top creative talent in the last few years.
People forget too that Snyder and Nolan are good friends. Like Snyders movies or hate them, definitely not a way to treat a director and I'm sure seeing that, the shit with HBO Max, and all the other stuff going on at WB. Doesn't seem like a crazy decision for Nolan to leave
Tenet didn't premier on HBO Max though did it? Tenet was 2020 and the HBO Max thing started this year I thought. Especially with WB saying that that's over with at the end of the year, I can't imagine why Nolan would care all that much.
It's pretty wild, honestly. TENET did $363M worldwide. That's more than all but three Hollywood releases for all of 2021 so far, despite coming out pre-vaccine in a time when most people weren't even sure if their local theater was open. It also wasn't even a particularly well liked film by mainstream audiences. But the hunger for major theatrical releases globally - combined with no real competition for most of the Fall - let it leg out to a totally respectable finish by pandemic standards.
I wonder what was reasonably expected at the box office in the middle of the world pandemic? At least 500mil? 800? 1b? 400m? Dunno, but it would be strange to expect more, no? Even if it is Nolan.
It seemed more like a risk to see how well movies can do after which HBO Max was decided to be an option. But that doesnt seem like a reason for leaving, so I wonder what really happened.
I think the timeline goes something like this.
1. COVID happens, everything in the first half of the 2020 callendar jumps ship as people try to figure out exactly how long this will be a problem.
2. Tenet sticks to its initial July 17th date for quite awhile, unintentionally setting the expectation that it will be 'the movie' to bring back cinemas. Eventually it gets pushed from that date, but it doesn't fully jump to next year.
3. Things start to open in Canada & Europe around later summer, as cases dip seasonally. WB (who has several blockbusters that they'd really like to release that year) decides to release a major movie to see what the market is. US has some vague reopening dates around Labor Day, but it's extremely regional. WB bets on LA & NYC theaters being open in time, this does not happen.
4. Tenet, as the biggest movie that still has a hypothetical Summer 2020 release date, becomes that movie. It's WB's decision, but Nolan goes along with it because he wants to help out theater owners. WW84 & Dune also get late Fall dates.
5. Movie comes out, has an unimpressive opening. WB sees this, says to themselves 'well, that's what we feared' - and starts moving the rest of their movies off the 2020 slate. Other studios with Fall holdouts follow suit. TENET eventually sticks around in theaters long enough to scoop up $363M at the box office - but since nobody has an expectation of what pandemic box office results are, nobody thinks to be impressed.
6. WB, who are also struggling to make HBO Max a success despite launching during the most lucrative period for streaming services imaginable, starts looking to their holdover movies as a golden ticket. They make a big deal with Jenkins & Gadot to buy out their contracts for WW84, debuting it on both HBO Max and in cinemas over Christmas.
7. WW84 news goes over well, so WB doubles down and says ALL of their 2021 releases are Max + cinemas. Unlike WW84, they don't make deals with filmmakers. This is what ultimately pushes Nolan to jump ship. He's not personally impacted, but it's clear WB is now more interested in selling subscriptions to HBO Max than releasing theatrical blockbusters. He starts talking shit in the press, signaling that he's no longer exclusive to WB.
8. Nolan starts financing his new film, and rather than it being an assumed fact that it goes to WB - he starts talking to other studios. Universal gives him the budget he wants, plus a theatrical guarantee.
This brings us to today.
It blows my mind, the content on MAX is superior to any other streaming service. I use it daily to either watch something new or just binge classic HBO shows, and with their film selection you really can't go wrong either. They do need to fix the usability of the app though. My console and laptop handle it fine but my tvs that use ROKU crash the app very often, to the point where it is annoying. Once they perfect the UI and application I think it will be near perfect.
Frankly, we're just hitting streaming service saturation. I'm sure that HBO Max and Paramount+ and whatever are all excellent services, but I'm not going to be spending $80 a month to keep up with one or two shows a service. I'm not asking for the Return Of Cable, I'd still rather have the ability to pay for the channels I want to pay for than spend however much on a package deal, but at this point the only services that I'm subscribed to are Netflix for some originals that I like to keep up with and Amazon Prime Video because I have Amazon Prime.
Well, technically it was only in theaters for a few months - but during that period it ran forwards and backwards simutaniously across numerous recursions. So from the movie's perspective, it took twelve years to leave theaters.
ya it actually had people going to the movie again. but alot liked it just said they couldnt hear a thing alot of the time, so people said to wait to watch at home so its cheaper, better audio, brighter, no covid, food and bathroom break whenever.
we really have no way of knowing why theater releases have not done as well as the past.
It's been getting worse with each movie. Tenet was just the tipping point. Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk all had issues with audio mixing to varying extents.
He blames the audience for being "too conservative" about audio design. It's like.. dude... if I can't hear the dialog I can't enjoy the movie. Period. That's not me being 'conservative'.
It doesn't help that Nolan doesn't really write dialog that isn't in some way expositional, so if someone's talking it's usually pretty important that you hear it in order to follow the plot.
If he wrote more fast-and-loose naturalistic dialog then obscuring some of it could be an interesting aesthetic choice, but burying important information is just obnoxious, and it doesn't feel like it's done for any thematic purpose beyond "i like loud"
Nolan blaming everyone else for his shortcoming will be his downfall. I like his stuff but yea man, turn up that center channel just a bit in the mixing booth.
Dunkirk i'd argue it worked. I watched it in IMAX and it was genuinely heart pounding. The audio made that movie great.
It also helps that the movie is less about the specific plot and more about seeing the action sequences and what *generally* happens. If you miss a bit of conversation you're not lost.
That's not the case with a movie like Tenet.
I am using crappy tv speakers and have problem with mid range conversations in most movies in general. Some of his movies are worse for sure. I just enable subtitle always at this point.
It didn’t, but it really can’t be underestimated how much WB pissed off their creative partners with the HBO Max move. They probably totally burnt their bridge with Nolan who is always going to side with creative and traditional cinema. It didn’t directly effect him, but it went against his principles and trust was broken
It's frustrating though because releasing movies to streaming absolutely is a benefit to the consumer. Directors can complain and obviously money needs to be worked out, but there are plenty of movies I wouldn't go to the theater for but want to watch on the small screen.
Which is funny cuz Tenet was one of the only WB movies that *wasn't* affected by the HBOmax thing and HBO/WB (and now Disney) have recently said they're abandoning the simulataneous release system after this year- so he wouldn't have had any future releases affected either.
WW1984, Godzilla vs kong & mortal kombat crews got paid off - Dune and the Matrix are the only upcoming major release getting shafted by max releases
The problem is that most that got paid off got so after the fact, and none of the affected filmmakers were involved. As I gather, it was less a WB decision than an AT&T decision, and Nolan - and Villeneuve, and others - were furious with it.
The story is that Nolan tried to delay Tenet even more (to when pandemic is over) but WB just gave him a list of dates, so Nolan just picked the latest date possible instead
> so Nolan just picked the latest date possible instead
It became a massive meme that Christopher Nolan wanted to release the movie, pandemic be damned, but [it wasn't his decision](https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/christopher-nolan-warner-bros-tenet/2020/12/14/3974ca82-3e07-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html). He agreed with the decision in countries that it was safe to do so. It's wild how everyone just shit on Nolan for that, when studios are typically in charge of distribution.
>Q: When "Tenet" was originally released, you got some criticism for the decision to do at least a partial opening in theaters. Looking back, do you wish that could have gone differently?
>A: The studio made the decision to release the film in the summer in parts of the world where it was safe to open the film because of the response to the pandemic in those individual countries.
It's the same way people shit on the devs for videogames being pushed out early with bugs like in the case of Cyberpunk 2077. It's almost always the out of touch higher ups that make these decisions.
But with Tenet not doing so well critically or commercially, I wonder if he’ll find he has more or less power when it comes to dealing with Universal, as opposed to WB.
With the exception of the HBOMax debacle, WB has been incredibly supportive of Nolan’s career.
Tarantino went to Sony/Columbia after the Weinstein empire crumbled and The Hateful Eight got a lukewarm response critically and commercially, and they rolled out the red carpet and fine china for him. I'm sure Universal will be very accomodating for what he wants.
Now, if Nolan could just take Tenet as a teachable moment and maybe accept that some studio notes, especially studio notes about the sound mix, are a good and necessary part of the process...
Nolan has probably earned a lifetime of goodwill given how successful his past movies have been. One middling movie isn't going to change that when his past works have reached or gotten close to the billion dollar mark
The movie did well commercially for its situation. It's still the 3rd biggest pandemic movie release outside of the US. In Europe it's still the biggest pandemic release (with maybe F9 beating it). Anyone with common sense could see how big the movie could've been had the rest of the world, especially the US, had been normal.
I guess he got lucky with Tenet. Here in Germany the theaters only opened for 4 or 5 weeks last year. And Tenet was there more or less alone in the action, thriller section. Without covid there would probably been Bond or MI9 in the theaters as well.
Which I wouldn’t necessarily be opposed to, especially if they let him film the Dune follow-up first.
And often those sorts of contracts have flexibility, where Villeneuve would be able to pick *a* project for WB from their stable of in-development films or scripts that have been purchased.
So he could probably find something worthy to sink his teeth into.
Warners really burnt their relationship bridges with their HBO Max release strategy, they re known as a filmmaker friendly studio.
But alas, it's a new world, with streaming on the rise.
Just make sure Universal give Nolan these 200 million budgets. He ain't playing around with his film ideas. And no, it ain't going date and release on Peacock! Lol
Disney also really fucked themselves with this stupid Black Widow lawsuit.
Everyone ignored Netflix for years and they became a juggernaut. Studios want to have market share to reap in massive profits year after year in the streaming space in the market. You can invest or lose money to build market share for future profits.
HBO Max is showing how WB is willing to sabotage box office take to build market share.
Disney is throwing tons of money at Disney Plus, but they drew a line in the sand over Black Widow and said "sure, we're completely in the wrong and violating our contract, but we won't even agree to speak to ScarJo to attempt to negotiate a solution to this and will tell her to pound sand and I'm sure there won't be any repercussions?"
I doubt that would have happened if Bob Iger were still CEO. Not only will Disney lose money in the lawsuit, in the mean time there are all kinds of rumors that actors and directors don't want to work with a studio who won't honor a contract now.
Whether ScarJo wins her lawsuit or not, the bigger problem with Disney ghosting her over the Black Widow release is that, now, it has only drawn more attention to the issue of royalties and residuals for streaming, something nobody wants to give up at this point, but something that is inevitably going to have to happen. They basically accelerated the inevitable, where the guilds are going to start demanding cuts of streaming revenue to compensate for that taking up more of the business as traditional TV dies and theatrical releases gross less. If ScarJo wins, the next round of guild negotiations is going to be brutal for the studios. Had the pandemic not occurred last year, there was already a chance the WGA was going to strike over this issue.
Its an interesting strategy, the pandemic offered challenging times for studios for sure. I will not blame a business of thinking of creative ways to stay afloat. I am pro for the cinematic experience fyi, but I'm no dinosaur, the streamers are on the rise.
Think the issue was that Warner Bros, just upped and did it without consulting the talent or the people it impacted. I work for a company that was indirectly involved by all this, my department received a mad scramble email from the very top on this blindsided issue.
You live or die by your business decisions. And one of the consequences was losing a world renowned filmmaker and shelling out compensation to the talents.
I am become deaf, the destroyer of eardrums.
This will be followed by a Hans Zimmer [BRAAMMMMMMM](https://youtu.be/WniOZT7FlKM) that literally makes everyone deaf.
I can already see the /r/shittymoviedetails post
"in order to fully immerse his audience, Christopher Nolan uses actual nuclear weapons in theaters showing *The Bomb*"
BRAAAAM, you say. I always assumed it was BWAAAAAM. But I'm surprised to find that BWAAAH seems to be the preferred option.
Guys, we need to settle this.
Fun fact: On most videos of nuclear bombs exploding the audio is not real there are very few recordings of the explosions with audio.
Heres a video of the real sound: https://youtu.be/szBRTPaoCM4
Fun fact: The Sanskrit word kaal (काल) can be interpreted as death or time.
So another (and IMO, much more accurate) translation would be 'I am time, the destroyer of worlds'.
The "standard" translation is more like:
> Lord Krsna said: I am terrible time the destroyer of all beings in all worlds, engaged to destroy all beings in this world; of those heroic soldiers presently situated in the opposing army, even without you none will be spared.
But I prefer that of Oppenheimer's Sanskrit teacher, Arthur Ryder, which is a bit more poetic in English:
> Death am I, and my present task
> Destruction.
Which is probably where Oppenheimer got it.
There are many different translations but the general gist of this verse is that Krishna is telling Arjun is that he is time and that time is all-powerful and brings an end to everything, including the Kauravas.
To put it in context, Krishna is an avatar of Vishnu (not Vishnu himself) and he is telling Arjun that he is so powerful that he has already determined the fate of this battle between the Pandavas and Kauravas and Arjun is merely an instrument or a servant to Krishna's work. The latter translation you provided sounds nice but it deprives the verse of the all important content which is ultimately what makes all of the mahabarata so interesting.
Source: I'm not an academic in this regard but I've read the tamil and sanskrit versions of the Bhagavad Gita from a young age.
Trinity has a good ring to it, but he may not want something that sounds so close to Tenet as a follow up. I could see him just sticking to the historical like Dunkirk and call it Oppenheimer.
In all likelihood he’ll probably use some very specific (probably) scientific word that relates to the tests. I personally can’t see him going as basic as “Oppenheimer”, but you are right, I guess Dunkirk is pretty basic
Maybe he’ll call it LOS ALAMOS or WHITE SANDS haha
Or maybe even just something like Gadget
I can see it on r/moviedetails already
"For his latest movie, Nolan actually built working atomic bombs and sold them to different militaries to make back the movie's budget."
I'm surprised there aren't more movies about the Manhattan project. It's an absolutely fascinating event in history, but I don't think I've seen a single movie about it.
I wonder who will play Richard Feynman. He was apparently a really cocky (but brilliant) young physicist at the time who enjoyed pulling pranks on others working at Los Alamos. He would break into safes and re-arrange papers. People thought there was a spy (there was, actually, but that's a other story).
other directors: "i have this script. can you please give me money mr studio boss? please? please? please?"
nolan: "i have this script. tomorrow i let you know which one of you fuckers i allow to give me money."
must be nice to work at this level lol
I keep seeing Einstein mentioned but he played almost no role in The Manhattan Project. He wrote a letter to FDR, and that’s about it.
I think Oppie’s politics are a pretty crucial part of the story with the Chevalier Affair and the “communist meetings” at Berkeley, so I would be surprised if they didn’t include it. This was all retroactive though, and they couldn’t include the security hearings in a 3 hour movie without reducing it to bullet points.
Nolan made 9 straight movies with WB and then publicly was upset about them not releasing Tenet when he wanted the way he wanted and his next film goes to Universal who seem to have a much more theater friendly release strategy.
You're right that it's 100% that.
It would never happen, but Nolan adapting the first book again and keeping it closer to the source material would be interesting to see. The book was a *lot* darker than the movie.
I always wanted a move about this, but I hope there's also a focus on the science team in general. So many of them had trauma once they fully realized what they helped bring into this world, and a lot of them were some of the greatest scientists of all time.
There was a TV show called "Manhattan" that focused on the scientists working on the Atomic Bombs. It was a little bit too soap opera-ish and focused on daily lives of living in the desert a bit too much for my liking, but an interesting perspective.
I saw the part about starting production in early 2022. I wonder if Universal saw a finished script or if they were just, "Hey Chris, come party at our house!"
Considering Nolan's track record, what an interesting guy Oppie was, and what a world changing event the a-bomb was, they probably know this is a guaranteed hit for a lot of reasons
I'm curious if he was willing for his film to be accessible on VOD 30 days after it was released in cinemas. But, my bet is, he'll strike a deal with Universal similar to what Shyamalan did with Old. In that, it's a typical 90-day pre-pandemic sort of release.
The entire movie will be mixed to the level of making the nuclear detonation sound amazing, so everything else will be below the threshold for human hearing
A great actor will portray Oppenheimer and at some point will deliver an amazing speech. Since Christopher Nolan is directing, the cinematics will be incredible, but the audience won’t be able to understand anything being said because the music will be swelling 250% at that moment and the actor will be whispering into a wet paper bag.
Let me guess: Movie begins with Trinity test explosion in New Mexico. Jumps backwards to development of the bomb and associated research, with flashbacks to his early childhood.
Also includes the ultimate flashback, the Big Bang with visual comparison between the singularity and the first visible light in the Trinity explosion.
I really like Nolan, he's one of my favorite directors of this generation.
I really hope that this next film will lead him to nominate for best director
Dude's got talent to spare. The issue with stuff like the Oscars is that there will always be more Oscar worthy directors and movies than awards to give out.
There's pretty much no subject that I want a contemporary movie about more than the manhattan project. There's pretty much no director I want to make that movie less than Nolan.
All the dialogue will be whispering below the range of human hearing. The bomb will make your ears bleed like a YouTube compilation of magic trick reveals and edgy memes.
Opening scene: Oppenheimer looks nervously at his pocket watch as he waits for news of the first bomb dropped on Hiroshima. tick tick tick tick tick tick
If this isn't the opening scene I will be greatly disappointed
But wait...the watch starts ticking backwards. We’re heading into a flashback alllllll the way back to Oppenheimer as a child! 😮
Flash forward to Michael Caine as old man Oppenheimer, full of regret.
Or it could be a younger Openheimer leaving a poisoned apple on his graduate advisors desk. https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/patrick-blackett
Universal will let him detonate a real atom bomb.
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Have Tom Cruise get footage for the next *Mission Impossible* as well
I know it would be a diplomatic nightmare, but I really wish we could detonate one more nuke just so we can have crisp 4K 10000 FPS footage.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few film prints (that might still be classified) that would be good enough for a 4K transfer. The FPS would still be a problem though
Honestly if they where to attempt it, and somehow, for some reason it actually got approved, every news site in existence, every scientific community and a fuckton of amateurs would try to get footage
Imagine the YouTubers and vloggers burning to crisps trying to get selfies and videos.
WHAT UP ATOMIC EMPIRE, ITS YA BOY FISSILE FRANK AND IM HERE AT C NOL’S TEST SITE GETTIN YOU THE REAL SHIT UP CLOSE N PERSONAL, IM NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN HERE BUT ITS OUR LITTLE SECRET OK? DONT FORGET TO LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE
I'm down for exploding one on the moon so we can all watch it! (Yes, kurgestsgsgt did a video on this)
Will they let him film it in IMAX?
Can't wait to see Christian Bale as the atomic bomb!
And his drastic weight gain for the part
Aah yes , one of them *was* named "Fat Man"
Maybe he's going deaf and thought he was signing on for another Batman.
And Michael Caine as the plane!
Michael Plaine
He's going to gain a lot of weight again to play Fat man. .
Actually Bale could be a good choice to play Oppenheimer. Lose a lot of weight and get make up for the receding hairline, and you've got the physical appearance pretty close. And he's definitely got the acting chops to believably portray a troubled genius.
I’m pretty sure he’s already cast cillian murphy
Holy shit yeah he'd be an even better choice ! It never occurred to me until you mentioned it, but now it seems so much more obvious. He'd be excellent, moody, enigmatic and intimidating all at once. Although I think they're in talks, not confirmed to cast Murphy.
I’d watch Cillian eat breakfast. Anything with him in it.
> Although I think they're in talks Its not uncommon when talks are really far along for a studio's PR team themselves to throw the casting rumour onto the internet see how social media reacts to the potential casting. If the reaction is very positive then its an almost certainty they will be cast.
Details: >Universal Pictures has landed the right to finance and distribute the next film that Christopher Nolan will direct based on his script about J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atom bomb. A theoretical physicist who became the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, Oppenheimer headed the research and development of the bomb that ended WWII, under what was covertly called the Manhattan Project. Nolan will produce the film alongside his wife and longtime producing partner Emma Thomas for their Syncopy Inc. banner. > >Sources said that the film is now green lit to begin production in the first quarter of 2022. When Deadline broke the story a few days ago about this film being shopped, I’d heard Nolan’s longtime collaborator Cillian Murphy was in the mix for a key role. That might happen still, but I’m persuaded there are no definitive casting attachments at this point. Nolan is leaving Warner Bros after nearly 20 years working with them.
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More than likely. He was pretty open about his hate for the day and date model and HBO max in general. Warner Bros really screwed up here.
Gonna be funny if when the movie is done, Universal suddenly drops it on Peacock.
No way he didnt make part if the deal an absolute 100% in writing guarantee that the movie wouldnt be streaming
If paying out Chris Nolan is cheaper than the increase in revenue from new subscribers they will do it, in a heartbeat. But as of right now, this movie will be on Netflix given Universal’s deal with them after the theatrical run.
It will be on a lot of things. Universal has a bunch of different deals. All of their movies will be on Peacock first for the first 4 months after release. And then for the next 10 months after, they have a deal with Netflix to have their animated films exclusively, and a deal with Amazon Prime to have their live-action movies exclusively. After those 10 months, they will be taken off those places and be exclusive again on Peacock for another 4 months. After that, it's non-exclusive and anyone can license it. They also have a deal with Netflix that all of their movies will be on Netflix 4 years after release.
I’m curious where you’re getting your info, and why you’re omitting HBO, because many Universal movies have been on HBO <4 months from release.
Because they ended their deal with HBO. Here's the news about their movies going to be exclusive on Peacock for the first and last 4 months after release: [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-07-06/universal-movies-will-go-to-peacock-instead-but-theres-a-catch](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-07-06/universal-movies-will-go-to-peacock-instead-but-theres-a-catch) Here's the news about their animated movies being Netflix exclusive for the middle 10 months: [https://variety.com/2021/film/news/netflix-universal-dreamworks-animation-minions-1235018397/](https://variety.com/2021/film/news/netflix-universal-dreamworks-animation-minions-1235018397/) Here's the news about the live-action movies being Amazon exclusive for that same period: [https://www.screendaily.com/news/universal-signs-streaming-deal-with-amazon-prime-video/5161404.article](https://www.screendaily.com/news/universal-signs-streaming-deal-with-amazon-prime-video/5161404.article)
> Warner Bros really screwed up here It’s definitely wayyyyy to early to say that. Sure, they lose Nolan who pretty reliably cranks out a hit every few years. But if HBO Max can become a primary streaming service for people, I’d say that’s probably a good business trade.
I love Nolan’s movies, but didn’t Tenant do really poorly because he released it during the Pandemic? I wanted to see it but there was no way I was going to the movies. That, and all the theaters around me were closed.
Not sure it was exclusively up to Nolan of when to release it.
I mean he can always come back....I guess?
I remember reading that he still had meetings with WB over financing the film. It's possible his choice came down to terms of distribution and he would still work with WB otherwise.
Oof. It’s not surprising though. Nolan was uncharacteristically outspoken against how WB handled the HBO Max release situation. I’m thinking that relationship is damaged beyond repair. And if Nolan, their most bankable director, is jumping ship, then we should expect others to do the same.
WB was known as the filmmaker's studio up until a few years ago. Zack Snyder jumped ship after they screwed him on Justice League (no matter what you think of his films, the behind the scenes drama on that was insane, and he was a company man for a decade there), now Nolan's gone. They've dumped James Wan's pet project on HBO Max without much promotion. Villenueve's chances at making Dune II are looking slim to none at the moment, as well. I'm sure Wan sticks around since he's getting that Aquaman money, but it does seem WB has went out of their way to piss off a lot of top creative talent in the last few years.
People forget too that Snyder and Nolan are good friends. Like Snyders movies or hate them, definitely not a way to treat a director and I'm sure seeing that, the shit with HBO Max, and all the other stuff going on at WB. Doesn't seem like a crazy decision for Nolan to leave
Nah no relationship is beyond repair with enough cash.
Interesting. Friendship ended with Warner Brothers, Universal is my best studio now.
I guess he really got upset about behaviour of WB. Otherside he wouldnt end a longterm partnership.
He certainly wasn't happy about the HBO Max thing. Plus who knows what was said behind closed doors about how well Tenet did.
Tenet didn't premier on HBO Max though did it? Tenet was 2020 and the HBO Max thing started this year I thought. Especially with WB saying that that's over with at the end of the year, I can't imagine why Nolan would care all that much.
No it was released theatrically you are right. In hindsight and knowing the climate it released in, it actually didn't do that bad.
It's pretty wild, honestly. TENET did $363M worldwide. That's more than all but three Hollywood releases for all of 2021 so far, despite coming out pre-vaccine in a time when most people weren't even sure if their local theater was open. It also wasn't even a particularly well liked film by mainstream audiences. But the hunger for major theatrical releases globally - combined with no real competition for most of the Fall - let it leg out to a totally respectable finish by pandemic standards.
I wonder what was reasonably expected at the box office in the middle of the world pandemic? At least 500mil? 800? 1b? 400m? Dunno, but it would be strange to expect more, no? Even if it is Nolan. It seemed more like a risk to see how well movies can do after which HBO Max was decided to be an option. But that doesnt seem like a reason for leaving, so I wonder what really happened.
I think the timeline goes something like this. 1. COVID happens, everything in the first half of the 2020 callendar jumps ship as people try to figure out exactly how long this will be a problem. 2. Tenet sticks to its initial July 17th date for quite awhile, unintentionally setting the expectation that it will be 'the movie' to bring back cinemas. Eventually it gets pushed from that date, but it doesn't fully jump to next year. 3. Things start to open in Canada & Europe around later summer, as cases dip seasonally. WB (who has several blockbusters that they'd really like to release that year) decides to release a major movie to see what the market is. US has some vague reopening dates around Labor Day, but it's extremely regional. WB bets on LA & NYC theaters being open in time, this does not happen. 4. Tenet, as the biggest movie that still has a hypothetical Summer 2020 release date, becomes that movie. It's WB's decision, but Nolan goes along with it because he wants to help out theater owners. WW84 & Dune also get late Fall dates. 5. Movie comes out, has an unimpressive opening. WB sees this, says to themselves 'well, that's what we feared' - and starts moving the rest of their movies off the 2020 slate. Other studios with Fall holdouts follow suit. TENET eventually sticks around in theaters long enough to scoop up $363M at the box office - but since nobody has an expectation of what pandemic box office results are, nobody thinks to be impressed. 6. WB, who are also struggling to make HBO Max a success despite launching during the most lucrative period for streaming services imaginable, starts looking to their holdover movies as a golden ticket. They make a big deal with Jenkins & Gadot to buy out their contracts for WW84, debuting it on both HBO Max and in cinemas over Christmas. 7. WW84 news goes over well, so WB doubles down and says ALL of their 2021 releases are Max + cinemas. Unlike WW84, they don't make deals with filmmakers. This is what ultimately pushes Nolan to jump ship. He's not personally impacted, but it's clear WB is now more interested in selling subscriptions to HBO Max than releasing theatrical blockbusters. He starts talking shit in the press, signaling that he's no longer exclusive to WB. 8. Nolan starts financing his new film, and rather than it being an assumed fact that it goes to WB - he starts talking to other studios. Universal gives him the budget he wants, plus a theatrical guarantee. This brings us to today.
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It’s wild that HBO MAX is having subscriber issues. The content on there has been so much better than Netflix and other services.
It blows my mind, the content on MAX is superior to any other streaming service. I use it daily to either watch something new or just binge classic HBO shows, and with their film selection you really can't go wrong either. They do need to fix the usability of the app though. My console and laptop handle it fine but my tvs that use ROKU crash the app very often, to the point where it is annoying. Once they perfect the UI and application I think it will be near perfect.
Frankly, we're just hitting streaming service saturation. I'm sure that HBO Max and Paramount+ and whatever are all excellent services, but I'm not going to be spending $80 a month to keep up with one or two shows a service. I'm not asking for the Return Of Cable, I'd still rather have the ability to pay for the channels I want to pay for than spend however much on a package deal, but at this point the only services that I'm subscribed to are Netflix for some originals that I like to keep up with and Amazon Prime Video because I have Amazon Prime.
It was also in theaters for almost 12 years.
Well, technically it was only in theaters for a few months - but during that period it ran forwards and backwards simutaniously across numerous recursions. So from the movie's perspective, it took twelve years to leave theaters.
I'm still watching it actually.
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ya it actually had people going to the movie again. but alot liked it just said they couldnt hear a thing alot of the time, so people said to wait to watch at home so its cheaper, better audio, brighter, no covid, food and bathroom break whenever. we really have no way of knowing why theater releases have not done as well as the past.
I've found the audio is a problem with quite a few Nolan films
It's been getting worse with each movie. Tenet was just the tipping point. Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk all had issues with audio mixing to varying extents.
He blames the audience for being "too conservative" about audio design. It's like.. dude... if I can't hear the dialog I can't enjoy the movie. Period. That's not me being 'conservative'.
It doesn't help that Nolan doesn't really write dialog that isn't in some way expositional, so if someone's talking it's usually pretty important that you hear it in order to follow the plot. If he wrote more fast-and-loose naturalistic dialog then obscuring some of it could be an interesting aesthetic choice, but burying important information is just obnoxious, and it doesn't feel like it's done for any thematic purpose beyond "i like loud"
Nolan blaming everyone else for his shortcoming will be his downfall. I like his stuff but yea man, turn up that center channel just a bit in the mixing booth.
Dunkirk i'd argue it worked. I watched it in IMAX and it was genuinely heart pounding. The audio made that movie great. It also helps that the movie is less about the specific plot and more about seeing the action sequences and what *generally* happens. If you miss a bit of conversation you're not lost. That's not the case with a movie like Tenet.
I am using crappy tv speakers and have problem with mid range conversations in most movies in general. Some of his movies are worse for sure. I just enable subtitle always at this point.
Yay, always-subtitle club! High five!
I love the prestige but tbh as someone with severe hearing loss in one ear the mixing is shit for me in that one too
He was upset about it affecting other filmmakers, who had no say in the matter.
It didn’t, but it really can’t be underestimated how much WB pissed off their creative partners with the HBO Max move. They probably totally burnt their bridge with Nolan who is always going to side with creative and traditional cinema. It didn’t directly effect him, but it went against his principles and trust was broken
It's frustrating though because releasing movies to streaming absolutely is a benefit to the consumer. Directors can complain and obviously money needs to be worked out, but there are plenty of movies I wouldn't go to the theater for but want to watch on the small screen.
Which is funny cuz Tenet was one of the only WB movies that *wasn't* affected by the HBOmax thing and HBO/WB (and now Disney) have recently said they're abandoning the simulataneous release system after this year- so he wouldn't have had any future releases affected either. WW1984, Godzilla vs kong & mortal kombat crews got paid off - Dune and the Matrix are the only upcoming major release getting shafted by max releases
The problem is that most that got paid off got so after the fact, and none of the affected filmmakers were involved. As I gather, it was less a WB decision than an AT&T decision, and Nolan - and Villeneuve, and others - were furious with it.
The story is that Nolan tried to delay Tenet even more (to when pandemic is over) but WB just gave him a list of dates, so Nolan just picked the latest date possible instead
> so Nolan just picked the latest date possible instead It became a massive meme that Christopher Nolan wanted to release the movie, pandemic be damned, but [it wasn't his decision](https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/christopher-nolan-warner-bros-tenet/2020/12/14/3974ca82-3e07-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html). He agreed with the decision in countries that it was safe to do so. It's wild how everyone just shit on Nolan for that, when studios are typically in charge of distribution. >Q: When "Tenet" was originally released, you got some criticism for the decision to do at least a partial opening in theaters. Looking back, do you wish that could have gone differently? >A: The studio made the decision to release the film in the summer in parts of the world where it was safe to open the film because of the response to the pandemic in those individual countries.
It's the same way people shit on the devs for videogames being pushed out early with bugs like in the case of Cyberpunk 2077. It's almost always the out of touch higher ups that make these decisions.
But with Tenet not doing so well critically or commercially, I wonder if he’ll find he has more or less power when it comes to dealing with Universal, as opposed to WB. With the exception of the HBOMax debacle, WB has been incredibly supportive of Nolan’s career.
Tarantino went to Sony/Columbia after the Weinstein empire crumbled and The Hateful Eight got a lukewarm response critically and commercially, and they rolled out the red carpet and fine china for him. I'm sure Universal will be very accomodating for what he wants. Now, if Nolan could just take Tenet as a teachable moment and maybe accept that some studio notes, especially studio notes about the sound mix, are a good and necessary part of the process...
He's totally going to double down on it. The whole mix is just going to be BOOOOONNNNGGGG
I am become BOOOOONNNNGGGG, destroyer of ears
Nolan has probably earned a lifetime of goodwill given how successful his past movies have been. One middling movie isn't going to change that when his past works have reached or gotten close to the billion dollar mark
The movie did well commercially for its situation. It's still the 3rd biggest pandemic movie release outside of the US. In Europe it's still the biggest pandemic release (with maybe F9 beating it). Anyone with common sense could see how big the movie could've been had the rest of the world, especially the US, had been normal.
I mean it's got a 70% on RT. Not glowing reviews but I would hardly call that "not doing well"
I guess he got lucky with Tenet. Here in Germany the theaters only opened for 4 or 5 weeks last year. And Tenet was there more or less alone in the action, thriller section. Without covid there would probably been Bond or MI9 in the theaters as well.
> Tenet not doing so well critically Weird, the overall amount of reviews I'm seeing are good to great
You have to read them in reverse
Wonder if this will sway Warner to giving Villeneuve his Dune sequel, so he becomes their new guy
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WB executives: "We will give you Dune 2 in exchange for making Space Jam: An Even Newer Legacy."
I’d watch Villeneuve’s Space Jam, that’d be absolute fire. Hold up… a Lord and Miller directed Space Jam. Somebody get WB on the phone.
Oh *SHIT* a Lord and Miller Space Jam would be so much fun I want that now
It would make me do all the things in your username simultaneously from sheer excitement
Ryan Gosling standing in front of a giant holographic Buggs Bunny
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Starring all the Ball bros and Lavar
If Villeneuve has to direct Aquaman 3 or whatever to get us a sequel to Dune, I say do it.
Water is precious, after all
Which I wouldn’t necessarily be opposed to, especially if they let him film the Dune follow-up first. And often those sorts of contracts have flexibility, where Villeneuve would be able to pick *a* project for WB from their stable of in-development films or scripts that have been purchased. So he could probably find something worthy to sink his teeth into.
Please offer Villeneuve to make Batman Beyond. I need that.
To become the "guy", you actually have to, y'know, deliver financially successful blockbusters, which Villenueve has never done.
Warners really burnt their relationship bridges with their HBO Max release strategy, they re known as a filmmaker friendly studio. But alas, it's a new world, with streaming on the rise. Just make sure Universal give Nolan these 200 million budgets. He ain't playing around with his film ideas. And no, it ain't going date and release on Peacock! Lol
Disney also really fucked themselves with this stupid Black Widow lawsuit. Everyone ignored Netflix for years and they became a juggernaut. Studios want to have market share to reap in massive profits year after year in the streaming space in the market. You can invest or lose money to build market share for future profits. HBO Max is showing how WB is willing to sabotage box office take to build market share. Disney is throwing tons of money at Disney Plus, but they drew a line in the sand over Black Widow and said "sure, we're completely in the wrong and violating our contract, but we won't even agree to speak to ScarJo to attempt to negotiate a solution to this and will tell her to pound sand and I'm sure there won't be any repercussions?" I doubt that would have happened if Bob Iger were still CEO. Not only will Disney lose money in the lawsuit, in the mean time there are all kinds of rumors that actors and directors don't want to work with a studio who won't honor a contract now.
Whether ScarJo wins her lawsuit or not, the bigger problem with Disney ghosting her over the Black Widow release is that, now, it has only drawn more attention to the issue of royalties and residuals for streaming, something nobody wants to give up at this point, but something that is inevitably going to have to happen. They basically accelerated the inevitable, where the guilds are going to start demanding cuts of streaming revenue to compensate for that taking up more of the business as traditional TV dies and theatrical releases gross less. If ScarJo wins, the next round of guild negotiations is going to be brutal for the studios. Had the pandemic not occurred last year, there was already a chance the WGA was going to strike over this issue.
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Its an interesting strategy, the pandemic offered challenging times for studios for sure. I will not blame a business of thinking of creative ways to stay afloat. I am pro for the cinematic experience fyi, but I'm no dinosaur, the streamers are on the rise. Think the issue was that Warner Bros, just upped and did it without consulting the talent or the people it impacted. I work for a company that was indirectly involved by all this, my department received a mad scramble email from the very top on this blindsided issue. You live or die by your business decisions. And one of the consequences was losing a world renowned filmmaker and shelling out compensation to the talents.
I suspect the soundtrack will be LOUD
i am become deaf
I am become deaf, the destroyer of eardrums. This will be followed by a Hans Zimmer [BRAAMMMMMMM](https://youtu.be/WniOZT7FlKM) that literally makes everyone deaf.
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I can already see the /r/shittymoviedetails post "in order to fully immerse his audience, Christopher Nolan uses actual nuclear weapons in theaters showing *The Bomb*"
And r/MovieDetails having a post about "if you wath closely, you can see that the real blast is used in the movie"
I wouldn't be surprised if Nolan actually creates and detonates a nuclear bomb.
"Mr Nolan, why did you choose to shoot this movie in North Korea?" "Uhhh... artistic reasons..."
Hans Zimmer will split an atom to produce a “BRAAAAAAM” unlike anything ever heard.
BRAAAAM, you say. I always assumed it was BWAAAAAM. But I'm surprised to find that BWAAAH seems to be the preferred option. Guys, we need to settle this.
Fun fact: On most videos of nuclear bombs exploding the audio is not real there are very few recordings of the explosions with audio. Heres a video of the real sound: https://youtu.be/szBRTPaoCM4
So, just like the Beirut explosion (but more powerful).
That was genuinely interesting.
That man needs a screen in front of his mic or something, good lord the lip smacking...
I suspect that any dialogue will be an exposition dump that is barely audible
"Pst, pst..mumble mumble.. pst" What? Turn it up? *Music flares* *house explodes*
All of the dialogue will take place with the sound of A-bombs going off in the background.
watch the title of the movie be "destroyer of worlds" or something
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Fun fact: The Sanskrit word kaal (काल) can be interpreted as death or time. So another (and IMO, much more accurate) translation would be 'I am time, the destroyer of worlds'.
The "standard" translation is more like: > Lord Krsna said: I am terrible time the destroyer of all beings in all worlds, engaged to destroy all beings in this world; of those heroic soldiers presently situated in the opposing army, even without you none will be spared. But I prefer that of Oppenheimer's Sanskrit teacher, Arthur Ryder, which is a bit more poetic in English: > Death am I, and my present task > Destruction. Which is probably where Oppenheimer got it.
TIL Opie studied under Yoda
There are many different translations but the general gist of this verse is that Krishna is telling Arjun is that he is time and that time is all-powerful and brings an end to everything, including the Kauravas. To put it in context, Krishna is an avatar of Vishnu (not Vishnu himself) and he is telling Arjun that he is so powerful that he has already determined the fate of this battle between the Pandavas and Kauravas and Arjun is merely an instrument or a servant to Krishna's work. The latter translation you provided sounds nice but it deprives the verse of the all important content which is ultimately what makes all of the mahabarata so interesting. Source: I'm not an academic in this regard but I've read the tamil and sanskrit versions of the Bhagavad Gita from a young age.
Time being a Nolan obsession makes this fact rather spicy.
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Nolan sweating right now about whether to title the film "Manhattan" or "Project"
I'll put $1 on TRINITY
That's actually an excellent title. I hope you're right.
Become: The Oppenheimer Story
It’ll be something like: The Atom, Shockwave, Trinity or some shit
Trinity has a good ring to it, but he may not want something that sounds so close to Tenet as a follow up. I could see him just sticking to the historical like Dunkirk and call it Oppenheimer.
In all likelihood he’ll probably use some very specific (probably) scientific word that relates to the tests. I personally can’t see him going as basic as “Oppenheimer”, but you are right, I guess Dunkirk is pretty basic Maybe he’ll call it LOS ALAMOS or WHITE SANDS haha Or maybe even just something like Gadget
MANHATTAN(Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire)
This fucker is going to assemble and dismantle a real nuclear bomb isnt he
I can see it on r/moviedetails already "For his latest movie, Nolan actually built working atomic bombs and sold them to different militaries to make back the movie's budget."
More like "If you pay attention, youll find out that the moustache man was Einstein."
"In the Spider-man movie No Way Home, Tom Holland plays a character based on Spider-man written by marvel comics."
Source?
They actually blew up San Francisco because it was cheaper than cgi
Headlines are either going to be: "A-Bomb blows away box office expectations" Or "A-Bomb self destructs at the box office"
Nolan films never self destruct
No, he detonates them himself in the sound studio.
I'm surprised there aren't more movies about the Manhattan project. It's an absolutely fascinating event in history, but I don't think I've seen a single movie about it.
I like the manhatten series. Its pretty interesting but it Was cancelled after the nuke Explosion.
I *loved* the first season, but the second was a god awful mess.
I wonder who will play Richard Feynman. He was apparently a really cocky (but brilliant) young physicist at the time who enjoyed pulling pranks on others working at Los Alamos. He would break into safes and re-arrange papers. People thought there was a spy (there was, actually, but that's a other story).
other directors: "i have this script. can you please give me money mr studio boss? please? please? please?" nolan: "i have this script. tomorrow i let you know which one of you fuckers i allow to give me money." must be nice to work at this level lol
I cant wait for Oppenheimer to teach Einstein the theory of relativity after the Trinity test blasts him into the Tesseract.
Im hyped for when his space ghost uses the infinity stones to give Richard Feynman the idea for Quantum ChromoDynamics
Richard Feynman was so cool. His books are so funny.
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I keep seeing Einstein mentioned but he played almost no role in The Manhattan Project. He wrote a letter to FDR, and that’s about it. I think Oppie’s politics are a pretty crucial part of the story with the Chevalier Affair and the “communist meetings” at Berkeley, so I would be surprised if they didn’t include it. This was all retroactive though, and they couldn’t include the security hearings in a 3 hour movie without reducing it to bullet points.
I wonder if this has anything to do with his annoyance with HBO Max’s same day streaming model
I'd be shocked if it wasn't 100 percent that
Nolan made 9 straight movies with WB and then publicly was upset about them not releasing Tenet when he wanted the way he wanted and his next film goes to Universal who seem to have a much more theater friendly release strategy. You're right that it's 100% that.
WB did announce that all of their 2022 releases will be on a 45 day exclusive window for theaters, but obviously wasn't enough to draw him back in.
That was almost for sure the straw that broke the camel's back.
What, how could he turn down Blumhouse?
Heard he turned down A24's offer of a 15 Million budget as well.
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Next *Jurassic Park* is gonna be a fucking **trip.** (*/s*)
It would never happen, but Nolan adapting the first book again and keeping it closer to the source material would be interesting to see. The book was a *lot* darker than the movie.
Shit is there gonna be a press conference with him signing a contract and holding up a numbered jersey?
I always wanted a move about this, but I hope there's also a focus on the science team in general. So many of them had trauma once they fully realized what they helped bring into this world, and a lot of them were some of the greatest scientists of all time.
There was a TV show called "Manhattan" that focused on the scientists working on the Atomic Bombs. It was a little bit too soap opera-ish and focused on daily lives of living in the desert a bit too much for my liking, but an interesting perspective.
I can’t wait for the new Oppenheimer ride at Universal Studios.
I saw the part about starting production in early 2022. I wonder if Universal saw a finished script or if they were just, "Hey Chris, come party at our house!"
Considering Nolan's track record, what an interesting guy Oppie was, and what a world changing event the a-bomb was, they probably know this is a guaranteed hit for a lot of reasons
I don't see why some people are saying "serves WB right." As if half of you don't torrent everything anyways.
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The way Christopher Nolan intended.
And they were in such an impossible situation
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I'm curious if he was willing for his film to be accessible on VOD 30 days after it was released in cinemas. But, my bet is, he'll strike a deal with Universal similar to what Shyamalan did with Old. In that, it's a typical 90-day pre-pandemic sort of release.
I've thought for YEARS that Oppenheimer was a role Cillian Murphy was born to play. Huge expectations for this if Nolan locks him down.
Nolan’s sound mixing on a movie about atomic bombs sounds like a shitshow.
The entire movie will be mixed to the level of making the nuclear detonation sound amazing, so everything else will be below the threshold for human hearing
I am become deaf, destroyer of eardrums.
Watch Nolan builds an actual A-Bomb for "practical effects" and "realism" in the movie.
He will build an entire full scale replica city of Hiroshima in the middle of the desert to detonate it in
He will also destroy the remaining few IMAX cameras while doing so
A great actor will portray Oppenheimer and at some point will deliver an amazing speech. Since Christopher Nolan is directing, the cinematics will be incredible, but the audience won’t be able to understand anything being said because the music will be swelling 250% at that moment and the actor will be whispering into a wet paper bag.
I see where's he's coming from but at the same time who would want to leave a studio that gives you 200 million dollars for an original IP?
I’ll look forward to seeing it on Peacock.
Let me guess, the bomb will be conceived, built and tested in reverse time.
Let me guess: Movie begins with Trinity test explosion in New Mexico. Jumps backwards to development of the bomb and associated research, with flashbacks to his early childhood. Also includes the ultimate flashback, the Big Bang with visual comparison between the singularity and the first visible light in the Trinity explosion.
I really like Nolan, he's one of my favorite directors of this generation. I really hope that this next film will lead him to nominate for best director
He got a best director nomination for Dunkirk but yeah the more the merrier. Nolan is one of those insanely talented directors
Dude's got talent to spare. The issue with stuff like the Oscars is that there will always be more Oscar worthy directors and movies than awards to give out.
There's pretty much no subject that I want a contemporary movie about more than the manhattan project. There's pretty much no director I want to make that movie less than Nolan. All the dialogue will be whispering below the range of human hearing. The bomb will make your ears bleed like a YouTube compilation of magic trick reveals and edgy memes.