Christopher Nolan has reinvented The Dark Knight, taken us to outer space, and played tricks with our mind and memory, but for his next movie, the director is headed to the battlefield.
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“Dunkirk” sees Nolan tackling WWII, and bringing together an interesting cast of young stars to lead his movie — Fionn Whitehead, Aneurin Barnard, Harry Styles, James D’Arcy, Jack Lowden, Barry Keoghan — with more established names like Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, and Cillian Murphy slotted into supporting roles for the film detailing Operation Dynamo, the near-miraculous evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied troops from the French seaport of Dunkirk, which took place from May-June of 1940. Essentially, it has all the makings of something epic, and a summer movie that will be like no other in recent memory (indeed, this one is curiously not slotted for an awards season play that you might expect).
“Dunkirk,” shot on 65mm and IMAX 65mm by cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema (“Interstellar“) opens on July 21, 2017.