Welp, with COVID-19 spiking up all over the country again, (another single-day record for coronavirus cases today) nice work assholes, did you not see what New York went through and see it as a cautionary tale? Warner Bros. is once again delaying and pushing back the release date of Christopher Nolan‘s “Tenet” just about two weeks after delaying it before. The most recent date, July 31, has now been changed to August 12.
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This is getting somewhat comical and much like that scene in the Simpson’s where Homer’s pig flies through the mud, the sewers, all over Springfield, and a desperate homer swears, “It’s still good!” “Warner Bros. is committed to bringing ‘Tenet’ to audiences in theaters, on the big screen, when exhibitors are ready and public health officials say it’s time,” a Warner Bros. said in a statement. “In this moment what we need to be is flexible, and we are not treating this as a traditional movie release. We are choosing to open the movie mid-week to allow audiences to discover the film in their own time, and we plan to play longer, over an extended play period far beyond the norm, to develop a very different yet successful release strategy.”
Hmm, it’s almost as if various states opened up too soon and or completely disregarded all warnings and data.
“Tenet” cost $200 million and stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh, but the selling point of this one seems to be a Christopher Nolan event film, but if lazy safety and mask practices keep up, it seems very possible, we’re not going to get the film this summer.
Here’s the new official film synopsis:
John David Washington is the new Protagonist in Christopher Nolan’s original sci-fi action spectacle “Tenet.” Armed with only one word—Tenet—and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real-time. Not time travel. Inversion.
So, “Tenet,” potentially releasing in theaters August 12 if things go according to plan, but given the federal government has totally fucked up this response, left it to the states and there’s no leadership at hand anywhere, good luck with that!