Christopher Nolan’s Next Film: Inception

Posted by on February 12th, 2009   Filed under: Action, Sci-fi
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

It looks like Christopher Nolan is finally rested up and ready to move on from the behemoth that is The Dark Knight, but before he shoots another Batman movie, he’s going to be directing a different film from an original screenplay that he wrote himself. The script is called Inception, and it’s being described as “a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind.” Not much else is known at this time, but he will again be working with The Dark Knight producer Emma Thomas, and it is being aimed for a summer 2010 release.

Obviously we all know that Christopher Nolan is capable of doing a lot more than just comic book movies, and I’m glad to see him refusing to become completely consumed by the Batman franchise. Still, this sounds like it’s going to be a pretty big movie in its own right, rather than a smaller drama like Memento or Insomnia (then again, The Prestige did have a $40 million budget itself). The Hollywood Reporter also mentioned that he is attached to direct a movie based on The Prisoner TV series, which is interesting because AMC is currently prepping a mini-series remake of the show. Are you excited for a new original film from Nolan, or would you rather see him get to work right away on the third Batman flick?



  • i’m definitely excited that he’s not going straight into the new batman movie and working on his own passion project in between. my fave nolan film is the prestige, which he did between batman begins and the dark knight—i think this is a good model (doing the comic book movies then doing something else a little less commercial in between) for high quality directors who want to make big bucks doing comic book movies.

  • Matt

    Yes, I’m excited for pretty much anything Nolan does next. Just this Saturday I watched my first movie on Blu-Ray and it was Memento. I’m very happy it was a movie that was that good. Also a couple of nights after seeing The Dark Knight for the first time, I dreamed that I watched a third Batman movie directed by Nolan and that Johnny Depp played the Riddler in it. It was a good dream. Insomnia is the only movie of his that didn’t blow me away. I didn’t think it was bad. I just thought it was somewhat mediocre.

  • I think Nolan should take as long a break as possible from Batman, I mean, that movie is legendary now. He should just take his time build up his filmography with interesting little flicks like this, and then when nobody expects it, suprise everyone with a new Batman film. That’s how I would do it.

  • Considering THE PRESTIGE is a better film than either of the Bat-flicks, I’m more interested in what Nolan does in between Mega-Blockbusters (those rare $40Million efforts)

  • Ian

    Oh the Prisoner. I’m rewatching the original right now, that’s an awesome show. I hope that if Nolan does do a film or miniseries or something that they keep it in the 60’s. Otherwise the tech angle would be just too much. I prefer it when some of the bells and whistles are actually bells and whistles.

  • All I want to hear about is an interesting director doing a sci-fi film from an idea that is ORIGINAL-TO-SCREEN. That’s all I ever want to hear again.

  • I’m really excited to see someone doing it right and having the fans back themup if the comments on this blof is any indication. I liked The Prestige better than The Dark Knight too, though it was still a great batman film…or film period. But I’m more excited about this project I think. It’s rare to see anything about a half decent sci-fi film. Rarer still to have it done properly. And probably even more rare to have a good director attached. I’ll definitely see this one when it comes out.

  • tindalos

    yeah, it looks like he’s really lived up to his promise with this one. sometimes the seriousness of his movies is sort of a liability. Batman Begins could have really benefited from a little humor, for instance. The Dark Knight was exponentially better in all ways, but it also noticeably had more humor. there is always a lot of promise in his movies. he has good ideas, and he certainly always makes great film *trailers*! ha ha. really looking forward to this one. i actually don’t care if there are any jokes in this one, i suspect it would succeed on it’s other merits otherwise.

  • tindalos

    Have you seen the Inception green screen video site? You can make a video where it looks like you’re in a scene from the movie. http://gs.protectyourthoughts.com