Christopher Nolan's time-travelling epic is fast approaching
Christopher Nolan had described Tenet, the follow-up to his 2017 war epic Dunkirk, as an “event film” – which seems to be a fitting description for every one of his mind-bending sci-fi thrillers to date.
From Interstellar and Inception to the Dark Knight trilogy, bigger is always better and Nolan rarely fails to deliver unparalleled thrills. But he’s a cryptic filmmaker, keeping as many details as possible under wraps until the very last moment.
Ahead of the upcoming release, we’ve gathered all released information about what’s set to be the most gripping release of the summer.
Tenet release date: when is the film in cinemas?
Tenet will premiere in cinemas worldwide on 17 July 2020 – reportedly debuting in IMAX format. The prologue started playing ahead of selected The Rise of Skywalker screenings in December, and is currently being shown before a handful of screenings of Birds of Prey, another Warner Bros. release, too.
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— IMAX (@IMAX) February 5, 2020
Tenet trailer: is there a teaser yet?
There is! The first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s new film was released online in December, after playing exclusively in cinemas ahead of Fast & Furious spin-off Hobbs & Shaw last summer.
Tenet cast: who is in it?
Nolan reunites with a couple of longtime collaborators on Tenet, including Michael Caine (The Dark Knight) and Kenneth Branagh (Dunkirk).
But it’s also a showcase of new faces for the director – John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman) leads the film, and is joined by Robert Pattinson (styled with Nolan’s very own signature haircut), Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Debicki, Clémence Poesy, Himesh Patel (Yesterday), and Dimple Kapadia.
Tenet plot: what is the new film about?
To an extent, yes. As ever, specifics are being withheld – but the film follows a secret agent (Washington’s character, still unnamed) tasked with preventing World War III. The extra twist, making it recognisably Nolan, is that time travel is somehow involved.
A clue to the central narrative of the film may lie in history. The Sator Square (or Rotas Square) is a word square containing a five-word Latin palindrome. It contains five words (the central word being “Tenet”) made up of 25 letters and reads exactly the same forwards as it does backwards. It can be found across Europe, and has been located on different buildings, walls and urban dwellings as early as 79AD. The most famous version is in Oppede, France. One likely translation of the Square is “The farmer Arepo has [as] works wheels [a plough]”.
No, you’re right, that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. But the symmetrical nature of the square could hint at the time-travel structure of Nolan’s new movie. Could, perhaps, the film revolve around a single point in time, or even feature a narrative that repeats itself backwards in the second half of the story?
Where was Tenet filmed?
Rarely one for minimalism, Nolan took his team around the world to shoot the film in seven countries – Denmark, Estonia, India, Italy, Norway, the UK and the US. With a budget of $205 million, making this his second most expensive film after The Dark Knight Rises. No expenses were spared, it seems…
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