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As soon as I saw the Syncopy logo I knew what was happening.
Seriously chuffed catching this, never saw any of the others on the big screen before.
Looks seriously thrilling and intriguing, Nolan looks to be re-defining blockbusters again with this.
Only a certain Secret Agent as me more excited this year than this.
2020 will be a great time on the big screen just on the strength of these two alone.
As I'm not really a big blockbuster fan anymore, don't get excited by MCU or DC so having one of my favourite directors and my favourite film character in the same year is a big deal for me.
Like you @Univex i don't like all his films to the same degree, but Nolan is definitely one of the most intelligent director's around. He's constantly pushing new boundaries with his execution and ideas.
I'm always excited when Nolan has a new project on the horizon because i know it's going to be worth seeing.
Personally i would love to see him tackle Bond. Especially in the area of writing and ideas, something SP fell woefully short on.
Probably my least favourite quality of his films, too.
Getting scared that this poster will soon be revealing an inaccurate release date......
The smart thing for Warner may be to push this to December 2020 and take their currently scheduled 'Dune' film into 2021.
Nolan is due an Oscar-push and perhaps would have won gold if 'Dunkirk' was a December release. After all, look what '1917' did with that release date (even though 'Parasite' did ultimately sink its battleship).
I think the thought of a big Oscar push would entice Nolan to delay sadly.
Some examples:
Get Out won an Oscar the same year as Dunkirk, and that one came out in February, 5 months earlier than Nolan's WW2 film. The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014 won 4 Oscars (which is more than Dunkirk managed), and that film was released in March, 4 months earlier than Dunkirk in 2017.
Made me think of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO having a bad release date on Christmas 2011 specifically because Sony wanted to get it out on time for awards season, but it wasn’t the kind of film you release on Christmas and expect a good box office. They really should have just made it a February 2012 release, as that’s a much stronger month for thrillers, even if it meant it’s Oscar noms wouldn’t come until many months later for a 2013 ceremony.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-theaters/u-s-movie-theater-operators-aim-for-a-late-summer-blockbuster-season-idUSKCN21W1CP
I think Warner will need to move their entire slate. Hence, the delay in saying anything.
I think we will likely see:
The absolute worst case scenario is everything moves a year along. I.e; Dune goes to December 2021 and Batman moves to June 2022.
They are the big Warner releases for 2020/21 with the most fan interest. Interested to hear @antovolk take on this stuff as I know he reports on it it very well on Twitter.
Meanwhile, I can't decide if I'm more pumped for Tenet or Dune.....I think the latter has the edge with all the hype recently. I really hope that doesn't move from December.
Another question @Pierce2Daniel is where will Wonder Woman 1984 move to? It is a very real possibility that by August the situation still does not allow for major film releases. Maybe it gets delayed to somewhere in December?
Crikey....I forgot all about Wonder Woman. That film is becoming a bit of a headache for Warner for all the moving up and down the schedule it has endured. It would have been better suited to it's November 2019 date. It's had not few than 3 release dates spread out across a year.
If NTTD fans are frustrated, just imagine how the Wonder Woman fans are coping. I suspect that film gets the December 2020 date. Something it should have been given straight away when the pandemic started. It was the same date that Aquaman flourished in.
But do we really think that threatrical distrubtion will be dead in August? Really? Surely the curve will be flattened by then. Right?
Also, WW updated all their posters with that new date. Will they really change their whole marketing campaign again for the 4th time???
Hopefully the situation will look better by then, but it is too early to tell. I think in late May we should have a clearer picture, i.e. if several August releases suddenly get delayed. So far only the Mark Wahlberg sci-fi thriller Infinite (due August 7th) has been postponed (to May 2021).
And even if the coronavirus curve gets flatten, it is way too risky to re-open the whole economy straight away. The only sure-fire way to get films like NTTD delayed again is to re-open things too quickly and cause a second wave of the outbreak which triggers another world-wide lockdown by October/November.
a little optimism never hurt anyone
Wonder Woman 1984 has been moved to 1985.
if it was a Nolan bond film I would but as it stands....
Hmm....I would. Perhaps me and few devoted other can get some prime seats at the Waterloo IMAX screen.
In fact, I hope this happens in July.
...plus cinemas will likely be open then. Let's be optimistic!
Agreed. No film is worth risking your life for.
Trying to listen to a mumbling Michael Caine on his death bed in INTERSTELLAR was like trying to decode WWII secrets without a decoder.
Tell that to Tom Cruise.
Do not get your hopes up. Only 2 weeks ago US cinema chains were hoping of a re-opening in Mid-June. The re-opening date they will give will just be pushed back every 2 weeks by clockwork until September (which is still a very optimistic estimation).
https://nypost.com/2020/04/01/amc-hoping-to-reopen-movie-theaters-by-mid-june/
China re-opened their cinemas on March 23rd after 2 months of closure. Guess what happened? China decided to re-close them by March 27th. We are nearing 1 month of this secondary closure, and China has absolutely no specific plans on re-opening them again yet.
If you put that same timeframe to US cinemas, given they closed in mid-March, that would mean all US theater chains will remain closed until early August (at the very minimum), which shows that the article in your post above may prove unrealistic. Especially since the pandemic oubreak is currently much worse in the US than in China, and with much less strict lockdowns, it's safe to add 2/3 extra months to any re-opening scenarios.
They will have to be delayed until 2021 -- or else go the streaming route.