(ANSA) - NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 15 - Christopher Nolan's next film will be about the father of the atomic bomb Robert Oppenheimer and to make it the director of "Tenet" and "Dunkirk" turned to Universal Studios, divorcing Warner Media that for two decades had produced most of his masterpieces.
Almost all of Nolan's films since 2002's "Insomnia" had come out with Warner, with the exception of 2006's "The Prestige", released by Disney, and eight years ago "Interstellar", which featured Warner and Paramount. share the box office, respectively internationally and in North America.
Universal won the production this time after a skilful courtship, writes Variety, but also due to the decision of Warner, bitterly contested by Nolan, to move the distribution for the whole of 2021 simultaneously on Hbo due to the crisis from Covid: " Some of our great talents went to bed yesterday thinking they worked for the largest film studio in the world and woke up this morning to find out they were working for the worst streaming service, "the director of" Dark Knight "said at the time. Last year Nolan and Warner had privately quarreled over plans to release "Tenet". The director was convinced that his latest film, an action sci-fi, would rekindle public interest in returning to theaters.Much more cautious are the leaders of the study who were anxiously seeing the possibility of releasing a 200 million dollar film in September 2020, when most of the cinemas were still closed due to the pandemic and access to vaccines still seemed far away. .
Warner had finally released "Tenet" that fall, but the box office disappointed, resulting in a loss of at least $ 50 million for the studios. The film about Oppenheimer will cost 100 million dollars from the start, entirely covered by Universal: at the center of the narrative will be not only the creation of the atomic bomb in the Los Alamos laboratories in New Mexico during the Second World War but also the subsequent taking of position of the American physicist against nuclear weapons and the production of the hydrogen bomb. Shooting, according to Variety, should begin in 2022, with probable theatrical debut at the end of 2022 or 2024. (ANSA).