We just finished our 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2019 and it was a huge endeavor (thanks, Oliver Lyttelton) and one of the questions that always comes up when crafting these lists is, what is X filmmaker up to if we haven’t heard from them for a minute. Christopher Nolan was definitely one of those filmmakers. What’s he up to next? Well, Warner Bros. just announced his next movie, an IMAX event movie scheduled for summer 2020, July 17, 2020, to be exact.
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The problem? Absolutely nothing is known about it, the title, a basic logline zilch. Nolan and his company Syncopy are notoriously secretive and while Warner has revealed a release date, that’s all we’ll be getting for now.
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Nolan is coming off his successful WWII movie “Dunkirk” which busted wide the conventional wisdom that war movies sometimes don’t perform at the box office, earning $526.9 million worldwide. The movie was released around the same frame, July 21 in the U.S. and received eight Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Nolan’s first Best Director nod. The film would win three Academy Awards: Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Film Editing.
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Minus “Interstellar,” that came out in the fall, five of the last four Christopher Nolan movies have been released in the summer around the July sweet spot; 2008’s “The Dark Knight,” 2010’s “Inception,” 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” and “Dunkirk.” None of these movies made less than $500 million worldwide and two of them passed $1 billion. Domestically, however, both “Dunkirk” and “Interstellar failed to crack $200 million at home.
What could the project be? We simply don’t know, but if you’re potentially looking for clues for his taste, he once tried to make Howard Hughes biopic, armed with what he called “the best script” he ever wrote with Jim Carrey as the star (no, really), a feature-length adaptation of the British 1960s mind-bending TV series “The Prisoner” and an adaption of Ruth Rendell’s crime novel “The Keys to the Street” with Gemma Arterton.
Whatever the case may be, Nolan has the pick of the litter and is one of the few filmmakers in the world who can make whatever he wants and pretty much command any cast he wishes. More details when they arrive.