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Insiders expect that the studio will make a decision within a week about whether to hold "Tenet's" planned debut on July 17 or push it back deeper into 2020. That's because Warner Bros. will need to start revving up its marketing campaign for the film, and it won't want to spend tens of millions of promotional dollars only to have to move it.
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I need a newtrailermovie yesterday
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I may or may not have been casually researching quantum entanglement and the like the past few months for a sci-fi/time travel project of my own. No matter what, this looks to be way different than the concept I'm working on, so I'm "safe," but man, I'm more excited now than ever to see what Nolan is cooking up. While Inception and Interstellar examine and play with time in unique ways (heck, Dunkirk too even, in a way), Nolan has yet to do straight up time travel, and now everything he's ever done suddenly feels like it's been building to this. To get the hint that he's approaching it with a deeply scientific, quantum-whatever bent... man, that's just the icing on the cake.
I need a new trailer yesterday. And now it appears as if Nolan may actually be able to make that happen.
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April 10, 10:16 a.m. PST // 6:16 p.m. GMT
Suddenly he lunges for his broken computer. "Literally just before this, I was trying to find my notes about the movie, as well, and that, like"
It takes a moment for me to realize what is happening. What notes? What movie? It turns out he means Tenet. It turns out he means the notes he wrote down last year, back when he was starting the film. "When I was looking at the notes," Pattinson says, "I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, these are, like, pretty good notes.' And that was what all that ****'s about. It's funny, 'cause I totally forgot, like, I'd totally forgotten a lot of the character stuff. Have you seen the movie, by the way?"
"No."
"I haven't seen it, either."
"Do you want to tell me what it's about?"
"Even if I had seen it, I genuinely don't know if I'd be able to I was just thinking, I just called up my assistant 20 minutes ago: 'What the **** do I say? I have no idea.' "
"What did your assistant say?"
"She's a lot cleverer than I am. Like, she went to college and stuff. And I'm just like saying all this stuff, and I was like, 'Oh God, no. I can't even bull**** my way through this.' "
For a minute he tries, though. "This thing, it's so insane," he says. He says they had a crew of around 500 people, and 250 of them would all fly together, just hopping planes to different countries. "And in each country there's, like, an enormous set-piece scene, which is like the climax of a normal movie. In every single country." He says otherwise jaded and hard-bitten crew members would come in on their days off to watch Nolan's special effects because they were so crazy. He apologizes for not being able to say more. He just doesn't really know what to say.
A few days later I call Christopher Nolan himself, to ask if Pattinson was ****ing with me about not knowing the plot of the movie he had just finished.
"The interesting thing with Rob is, he's slightly f/cking with you," Nolan says, laughing a reserved English laugh. "But he's also being disarmingly honest. It's sort of both things at once. When you see the film, you'll understand. Rob's read on the script was extremely acute. But he also understood the ambiguities of the film and the possibilities that spin off in the mind around the story. And so both things are true. Yes, he's f/cking with you, because he had a complete grasp of the script. But a complete grasp of the script, in the case of Tenet, is one that understands and acknowledges the need for this film to live on in the audience's mind, and suggest possibilities in the audience's mind. And he was very much a partner in crime with that."
April 10, 10:37 a.m. PST // 6:37 p.m. GMT
Pattinson: [trying again to describe the plot of 'Tenet'] I forgot a lot of things at the beginning of the movie. I was so obsessed with watching Christopher Hitchens debates. You know Christopher Hitchens?
GQ: Sure.
A lot of my character stuff, I was trying to do a Chris Hitchens impersonation, and I completely forgot that I was doing that until I saw my notes. I'm so curious. I mean, I literally haven't seen a frame of this movie.
Now I'm picturing Christopher Hitchens as a time traveler.
He's not a time traveler. There's actually no time traveling. [laughs] That's, like, the one thing I'm approved to say.