It will undoubtedly be the premiere of the moment: the movie “Tenet”, between espionage and science fiction, signed by the king of blockbusters Christopher Nolan, is expected as the messiah by movie theaters, harshly punished by the crisis of the coronavirus.
This blockbuster, with a colossal budget of 200 million dollars, is the only one that, after successive postponements, dares to come out in a turbulent period like this. Disney, for example, will directly propose “Mulan”, his last big bet, on his platform.
But Warner Bros he decided to trust Nolan, whose films – like the acclaimed “Batman” trilogy – generated more than $ 4 billion. Thus, “Tenet” will be released in more than 70 countries on August 26, before in the United States, where it will be released on September 3 in theaters that reopened.
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Will the movie save the cinema in 2020? The BBC responded affirmatively in a recent analysis, describing Nolan as a “patron saint” of theaters.
“These last weeks reminded us, if it was necessary to do so, that there are more important things in life than going to the movies. But when we reflect on all that the cinema offers us, it may not be so useless,” wrote the influencer editor of “Inception” and “Interstellar”, in a recent forum in the Washington Post.
The film has the main ingredients of any recipe for success and its argumentative appeal is summarized in the title, a palindrome, that is, a word that can be read both ways, like the swaying of time that allows the characters to move forward or backward. on the action.
The British-American filmmaker thus amuses himself with fantastic scenes, starring a secret agent (John David Washington, son of actor Denzel Washington), facing a ruthless evil (Kenneth Branagh), who threatens humanity.
Regarding the espionage plot, Nolan confessed on Wednesday in a virtual press conference with international media that he had marked him to see “The spy who loved me”, a James Bond from the Roger Moore period.
“It is the first I saw, with 7 years. I had the impression that I could jump to the screen to go to all corners of the planet. I wanted to rediscover that feeling,” said the director.
A black hero
But the 2:30 film, shot in seven countries, stands out from the Bond saga by having a black hero, something that has not happened so far with the famous secret agent in the service of His Majesty.
The cast of “Tenet” is completed by Robert Pattinson, who perfectly fits his ambiguous character, who “likes chaos and living in the middle of a nightmare”, according to the actor himself, and Elizabeth Debicki, who returns to play a outraged woman who regains her freedom, as in Steve McQueen’s “Widows.”
The director, who submitted the script to several scientists to adapt it to theories about the passage of time, is not the first to reflect on the consequences of manipulating the past in the present. “Terminator”, for example, preceded him. But this time, the temporary walkways are more numerous and porous.
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