'I get bored quite quickly...It's exciting to think about what's next': Shortly after the release of his 2023 movie Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan looks forward and teases what's next for him: metro.co.uk/2023/11/22/christ...
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The fact than Nolan gets bored very quickly is a huge win for the cinematic world.
facts, means he wouldn’t milk a franchise like marvel does also. Could easily have made more Batman movies but he knew when to quit
This comment is gold
Just give Nolan all the oscars. The man is a genius and long overdue
Yeah but he's not the only talented filmmaker, there are a several others who have just as compelling films and writing. Just dont have the popularity or budget he has. They all deserve shine too
He’s a lock for best director.
He is the internet's fav director. But his schtick is telling simple things in a complicated way.
He deserves better class of awards!
@@Macktubehis popularity was earned.
I’ve seen his films so many times I’ve lost count. He’s influenced me heavily to where I started writing and making my go at film making on nights after I get off work. His passion for cinema is just always so great to see. Greatest director of our time.
... by a mile
i love his films, oppenheimer is amazing in every technical way. i just didnt find the protagonist all too interesting on a personal level, or the gerneral story too captivating especially towards the end. enjoyable movie just not the most memorable imo.
You and me man. Interstellar was the film for me that made me want to go into filmmaking!
Keep it up. Keep chasing that passion that nourishes you. I hope ot works out for you
Where can we access the scripts you wrote?
Oppenheimer should 100% be given as full scale of a re-release as possible for the awards season, Universal should put everything they have into pushing it in all categories of all of the major shows. It deserves to absolutely sweep them all and make another $150M at the global Box Office.
Then it would finally cross the one billion dollar mark
@@user-js2sv1pw2e I wouldn't mind the production earning more money, but I still find it amazing people care for it. I find myself agreeing with BlokeWithNoBrain over at IMDB: "This movie, about one of the most significant events in the history of humanity effectively boils the entire story down to a very drawn out HR meeting to decide whether J. Robert gets his security clearance revoked or not many years after the event. Er... who cares?" . I know people care, but I too find it peculiar. It's not a bad movie, but it has serious issues. To my mind it succeeded because it was marketed well and had no competition for tickets, except for Barbie, which arguably has a different target audience. And all those facial pores in IMAX...why? IMAX was good for those Batman Dark Knight sequences, but...THIS? Anyway, good for Nolan and Hayslip!
I want to see a re-release of Interstellar but we can't have it all 😢
@@WallEWorldSame here bro
@@WallEWorld if only we got one for the 10 year anniversary
Nolan made the best space movie Nolan made the best superhero movie Nolan made the best historic piece movie
One of the best war movies as well
No
Nah I think Kubrick has the best space movie, and David Lean has best historic. But I’d agree Nolan has best superhero
@@benjihudson2768 2001 was boring af
best sci -fi movie or best war movie are you kidding 😅Interstellar and Dunkirk are disaster movie with lot of problems
How can you direct "The Dark Knight" trilogy and "Interstellar" without winning an Oscar is beyond me... Not to mention "Memento", "The Prestige", "Inception"... I don't feel "Oppenheimer" is on par with the movies mentioned, but Nolan deserves his Oscar.
I think to that Oppenheimer was overated and Tenet was just Ok.
well interstellar was against 12 years a slave, so the winner was obvious. It s basically dicaprio and his oscar.. he deserved it for almost every movie, but he had amazing competition, and just like dicaprio, i think nolan will have his oscar for a less better movie, but with weaker competition.
@@Vberar Oppenhiemer Is a MASTERPIECE
@@hablemosde1950 what's so masterpiece about it ??
I'm glad the Academy changed the rules after "The Dark Knight" to include more than five movies in the best picture category. It was a much needed change in the format.
I love his calm demeanour. It seems that he makes the interviewer feel at ease.
As a physicist, time is one of my favourite topics to see explored and experimented with in film, and Nolan shares that interest and covers it spectacularly well. Almost all of Nolan's films mess with time in some way, either as a literal plot point or through experimental non linear story telling. Even Nolan's films that don't focus on time as much like The Prestige and the Dark Knight trilogy, are insanely good, with The Dark Knight being my favourite of all time. I will probably watch anything Nolan makes in the future, whatever it may be.
Even The Prestige makes some time jumps that are very unique to Nolan, is a very different editing than a linear film like the Dark Knight
Curious what you thought about Tenet (I loved it) and will love to know what you know about physics and science etc lol
@@sheriffdraws8789 A lot of the criticisms of it, like the sound, the confusion of it, and lack luster explanations, are all very valid. Even though I like almost all of Christopher Nolan's stuff, after my first viewing, I would have ranked Tenet low among his other films. It is definitely one that has grown on me though as I have rewatched it outside theaters and learned to lean more on feeling in it instead of understanding like it says in the movie, and I have liked it more as I have come to better understand the temporal pincer maneuver.
Oppenheimer was a masterpiece, there's no doubt. But credit is also due to whoever put together trailer #2 because I had no intention on going to the theaters to see the film until I saw THAT trailer. It was one of the best trailers I have ever seen.
There is doubt.
@@g.w.7893 what doubt?
same. Genuinely one of the best trailers i've ever seen
is very well directed that's it!
I'd love to see him tackle the sci-fi short story "The Last Question" written by Isaac Asimov. The concept by Asimov combined with extrapolated writing, directing and producing of Nolan to add to the story would be extremely interesting. Do it Mr. Nolan!
I’d love to see him adapt any Asimov work, period. He would actually respect the source material like apparently all studio execs refuse to, i mean the recent Foundation series is a fucking travesty and an insult. The original foundation is among my favorites ever and the thing is, its not impossible to make, its ALL about the politics and the clever plots, not about flashy effects or visuals, thats just filler. Honestly the first Foundation book in hindsight has certain scenes quite resembling Oppenheimer, where boardroom meetings are made fascinating and engaging. If Nolan can adapt any Asimov story he’d have a great material to make another great film
Imagine a Bond trilogy directed by him .
He only releases a film every 3 years so I prefer he do something original or an adaptation of a novel. There aren't many directors who can make original films with large budgets so I'd hate to see him work on another film franchise. There are plenty of directors who can do a good job with Bond and could use it to launch a career if given enough freedom .
I just don't want him to be tied up with bond, bond is too easy for him
@@ssssssstssssssss O really? Maybe you should look at his IMDb & you'll see you're wrong about him having a movie every 3 Years.
@@shazanali692 No, pulling it out of the hole it's in now would be a challenge.
Tenet was his Bond film
i would love to see him direct a horror movie!
He just did.
Or the next Bond tbh. 🙂
He did mention about it recently.
WB must biting their nails knowing they've lost one of the best minds in the business to their stupidity
They have Villeneuve though.
And here we are with the oscars
looking at his film list he's directed.... legit every movie is a winner, instsnt classic
Meh... Some of his stuff is boring, and dare I say, self indulgent. Inception was ridiculous. Dunkirk is just more WWII/NATO navel gazing. Tenet was a bit too cerebral for a movie going experience. Interstellar...also boring. And Insomnia? Meh... Oppenheimer was a really good film, no doubt. And the Prestige? Awesome. As were Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Nolan is a obviously a proficient filmmaker. But his movies tend to drag on, and his directorial style a bit too cold and clinical for my tastes. He's a minimalist David Fincher. And that's kinda redundant.
Anything makes I’m going to watch, he doesn’t have a bad movie in his resume which is rare for a director like Nolan
Dunkirk and Insomnia were bad.
Not bad but not upto his standards
tenet was meh imo
Tenet is his 2nd most expensive movie to date and among his top 5. Better than Inception, Dunkirk, Insomnia, The Prestige.@@sdccvideo1460
@@heightcopecentreolddamn Insomnia is one of my favorites of Mr Nolan
U can just listen to this man all day and still can’t get enough of it
I would love to see something he haven’t done, something in Set in ancient time or a fantasy movie
I’ve seen the Batman saga inception, interstellar , Dunkirk , Oppenheimer. Nolan deserves an Oscar for making remarkable movies and producing dc films like man of steel. I saw Oppenheimer two times in theaters and it was absolutely incredible and the best story of the man who changed the world forever. I hope he works for universal studios and does maybe bigger movies based on comics again and other true story movies .
Watch Memento. It was the most creative film that I've ever seen
@@williamho7393This and also The Prestige. Then Insomnia, Tenet, and Following if you’re super into his films and want to be a completionist
Watch the Prestige. Its fantastic!
@@aaronholmes1253absolutely! One of the greatest ending 🙌
Both the films the two people mentioned above me are Nolan’s best films imo!! Recommend them both.
I missed Oppenheimer at the cinemas, so I hope they re-release it again so I can see it as it was meant to be. As for his next movie, as long as it’s something that peaks his interest, you know it’ll be good. I for one would love to see Greg Bear’s EON trilogy made into a movie, that would epic, but would also require and epic budget to do it justice.
And it was on the cinemas for months... 🙄
How did you miss it? It was in theaters from July to November?
Its out now!
They’re re-releasing it in imax 70mm on January 12th!
@@AwkwardArsicshould quite nicely cross that $1bn mark
I hope it's an action thriller like Inception, hopefully not another biopic or sci fi it's been a long time since he made a good thriller. I wanna see an original story as well like the prestige, having stories inspired or a biopic is good and all but an original story Is more engaging I feel.
while he doesn’t always make thrillers, i always get a thrill feeling after watching any movie he directs
@@username27626 yeah I guess so but when he makes thrillers they are much better than the others. Like batman, prestige, Inception.
You forgot he made Tenet right before this. But I understand why you forgot, lol. It wasn't very good.
@@VincentStevenStudio yeah exactly lol. Wasn't gonna include that piece of garbage
@@RakibMfilms I thought TENET was great. However, The Prestige is not an original story; it is based on a book of the same name authored by Christopher Priest.
I like how the interviewer asked Nolan how is he gonna follow up on the high bar Oppenheimer set. As if he hasn't done so numerous times in the past like Inception, Dark Knight trilogy, Interstellar etc. which were all very high bars for any director to follow up on.
One film I'd really love Nolan to make is a 'spinoff' biopic about Edward Teller, with Benny Safdie reprising his role as Teller, whose life was equally fascinating as Oppenheimer's- enough to make another 3-hour film!
Would love him to do a film about Tommy Wiseau!
Knowing Nolan, he may dump to someone else like he did with MoS. As he said with the interview, he gets bored fast!
An einstein or jfk film might be cool but maybe not
I would most definitely want him to do a film about Nikola Tesla.
Just glad he admits oscars are a pipe dream, definitely not the type we should be throwing awards at.
James Bond by Christopher Nolan Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as 007 And Cillian Murphy as (insert villian name)
he NEEDS to do a bond trilogy asap!
Bond would be too easy for him lol
Taylor-Johnson lacks charisma and suave.
He was good in Kick-Ass@@KTK44
daniel craig will always be my bond
What a great interviewer! Such great qustions, no one really asks him much about his working/personal relationship with his wife so I was really glad she asked about that! Great interview overall, bravo!
This man deserves all the accolades....so humble, so respect ful....
I love sci-fi movies and would like he does one that is minbending/challenging and complex. Like a follow up to Blade Runner 2049 would be nice. And I agree with others he would be good for 007.
Horror. He has to do horror. If Nolan can make a good horror and it smashes the box office, which is really tough in that genre, then he will be the greatest director of all time. No questions asked
Yawn
maybe he should learn how to write women in his movies first. all they do is complain at the male lead and then die.
@@rickyrougswhat a ridiculously odd take that is
Well horrors actually make a lot of money compared to relatively low budget cost.. but I would definitely love to see it. Or some dark crime movie like Se7en :)
Facts
Nolan’s filmography is certainly hugely impressive but, for me at least, his best film is still Memento. Don’t get me wrong I adored Inception, the Dark Knight trilogy was on another level despite a slightly weak third film, Interstellar is, well, stellar, The Prestige was, well, magical and even Tenet is an intricately crafted gem despite that bloody sound mix … … but I can still remember first watching Memento on VHS. Yes, it really was that long ago. Sitting watching it on my old TV I was mesmerised by the structure, storytelling and performances, not least from Guy Pearce who I’d watched play Mike Young in Neighbours for years so was delighted to see him deliver such a powerhouse performance and go on to become one of my favourite actors of his generation. Anyhow, the film finally ended and I did the rarest of things. I rewound the tape (Yes, such a burden!) and watched the entire film again straight away only to watch it two more times before I had to return it! Even today it’s a film I can put on most anytime and once again get drawn in by the meticulous plotting and editing of the film and whilst the same level of craft is clearly evident, albeit on a bigger scale, in his more recent work it’s his second film that will always stick with me the most. But as I said he’s a true master and a reminder that you can make big budget blockbusters without resorting to endless CGI and dumb storytelling. Good on ya, Chris!
Always a treat to listen to the greats.
It’ll be a four hour TED talk with Hans Zimmer putting a brick in the left side of the synthesizer. He’s a genius!
I really wish that Nolan had directed Valkyrie. Would have loved to see his usage of multiple storylines interwoven into that event.
Oppenheimer is a spectacular film! Nolan deserves Best Director for this incredible cinematic masterpiece. It was perfection full stop! Nolan is a genius. ❤️
Really good questions from metro here, well done.
He better be getting his Oscar
Especially for all of those unnecessary Florence Pugh scenes.
He'll be snubbed yet again. Just wait & see.
@@joewas2225 No he won’t. Not this time. I’ll bet you $50k. What escrow service would you like to use?
Greta Gerwig has been snubbed to ensure that he does. He's going to get it. Mark my words.
@@77Creation Greta is not even a good Director
i wish Christopher Nolan would do some movies in ancient Rome or Egypt
I personally hope he doesn’t do any bond films. I like his original mind bending stories. Take us back to space Chris!
An ancient epic maybe..set in ancient rome,or ancient greece,another crack at alexanders life or caesar..i would watch it for 3 hours..
Would love a detective thriller, sci-fi would be cool again too, Nolan is the 🐐
His next film will be about travel to the future where people develop a substance which will make them so fast that they can go to future periods while extremely fast walking. They also develop a substance where they can travel back in super slomo walking. The movie will be called ''fastmo''.
😀
It's a scandal that this man has not yet won and Oscar. Never known a director who is a brand himself. I never question thr movie or genre, if its a Chris Nolan movie, I simply pay the cinema money and strap myself in to be challenged and thoroughly entertained.
Yeah blind purchase of a ticket
INCEPTION is my, only 10/10 Movie. Idea, quality, soundtrack, special effects, actors etc... Pure masterpiece
He should do something small next, to throw everyone off. Actually, I'd love to see him go back to his roots as a low budget indie guy. It would be interesting to see what he would do with a minimal budget, but using the skills he's acquired over the last 20 years
A Nolan movie shot in space. Its gonna happen for sure!
He made Interstellar
@@lanceawesomeness6730I think op meant literally filmed in space lol
@@_fantasticscenes yes, i hear tom cruise will be in a movie shot in space
Legend of our time. One of the best directors of all time.
Great interview, felt a little cold but great questions.
His next film will be "DARK NIGHT" by Rich Evens, a coming-of-age story about a kid who discovers himself while walking in the pitch-black night and can't see anything.
The Academy not rewarding Nolan’s filmography has gone on far too long now, it would just be negligent if not spiteful to not recognise his achievement with this film with a best picture or best director award at this point. This was a cinematic masterpiece and is only right for it to be recognised as such.
I would to see what a Christopher Nolan Terminator or Aliens film would be like, I think that would be really interesting.
Both have been done to death. I want new things, not to chew the same old gum again.
@@happymaskedguy1943 batman had been done many time, yet his take was a fresh look and still i feel the best take on Batman. I just feel it be interesting what he would bring to another big franchise, I would also throw Robocop and Star Trek into the mix!
Even when set up to criticize audiences in a painless way in the question about misconceptions, he keeps it classy. Kudos
I want Nolan to go back to his epic sci-fi storytelling again.....and make more masterpieces like inception and interstellar.....
Did he announce his intent to make a film where you could actually HEAR the dialog? Can't wait to find out.
He could make a trilogy of films about Lindbergh. The flight across the Atlantic, The Kidnapping, and The America First Party. There is a wealth of material there.
There was some rumors (never confirmed though), that he was interestef in doing a film related to a story by or to the life of Jorge Luis Borges, a writer he considers one of his biggest influences
Borges is wild.
He is focuesd on making great movies and don't care about awards, thats why he is one of the greatest directors of all time.
I love when he uses the world churlish ❤
Christopher Nolan is my 2nd favorite movie director ever (behind Steven Spielberg)
Lmao watch more movies lil bro. Nolan is not even Top 20 of all time
@@rizanvou If you don't have him in your top 20 it's not my problem. Also most videos about people's 10 favorite movie directors I found on KZhead have Nolan in the top 10. Also I never even said Nolan is the 2nd best movie director ever as if it was a fact. I only said he's my 2nd favorite
He's my second behind Quentin Tarantino
@@Globalo45 I never watched a movie directed by Quentin Tarantino but I find it very likely I'd rank him somewhere in my top 10
@@matiaspereira9382reservoir dogs is actually a great start!!!
Having to create full length feature films to quench your boredom must be exhausting. Like I'm sitting around for weeks doing nothing, guess it's time to create another whole world, characters, 140 page script and story again
I really hope his next movie will be a low budget psychological thriller movie like Memento or Following
No matter what he will do, it will be great.
If oppenheimer not taken by nolan ,it would have been boring drama he done a good job on this film and music director just nailed it
He should certainly make a movie with RDJ in the lead role!
I wonder what type his next movie well be, we already have: action/drama, war, biopic, super hero, action/fiction, drama/fiction, period drama.
I can't believe this man is yet to win an Academy award.
Nolan's version of Thunderbirds
If he doesn’t get an Oscar for best director, it will be the biggest steal in the academy’s history
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Prestige and inception should have won Oscar
Best interview
Give him the Bond Trilogy. He’ll absolutely kill it
The guy has 6 films in Top 60 on IMDB, all of them very different. Quite an achivement!
I’d like to see him do something with a 10 million dollars budget and work with Guy Pearce again.
Why would you want him to make a movie with $10 million dollars? That's fucking stupid. Guy Pearce though? That could be cool.
I saw it multiple times in the cinema in IMAX. One of my favourite films. Cheers, Chris! 😁
Let’s face it - we all want him to helm a trilogy of Bond films
I want to see him direct a bond movie
Can Christopher Nolan make a comedy movie??
The Batman films where laughable
If they don't win all the Oscars there is something wrong
Give this man Bond please
Whatever he does next I’m watching it
It's not an exaggeration to say that Chris Nolan is the most talented and most outstanding film director of all time.
Nowhere near.
@@spencergreen6980 Wrong.
Not*
@@spencergreen6980 You're wrong.
@@Guardian__Angel Not at all.
Will someone please make Rendezvous With Rama into a thriller film???
Denis villeneuve, the other excellent as nolan as director, it´s confirmed to direct Rama.
I’d be curious to see Chris Nolan take on the James Bond series
He needs to do my hoverboard film - Day of light (still being written)😊
I think that Nolan should back to Sci-Fi movies. He is great on that.
Please do another space themed movie!!!
Tenet II. A futuristic take on mankind by Nolan with the origins of the inverted algorithm machine made by a future female inventor having the same dread mirroring Oppenheimers dread of his invention destroying the future but the future female inventor fear of destroying the past with her invention of inversion and time travel. A perfect dark mirror and perfect runner up after the masterpiece Oppenheimer. And the potential beginning of Christopher Nolan’s first true ORIGINAL trilogy. The tenet trilogy (I loved tenet it’s underrated💀)
A dark live-action TMNT.
A dream!!
Genius of our time. All his work are masterpieces in their own right. Only Deni Vilnev can be considered a close competitor in the modern cinematography
I remember just after the release of TENET he said that he might take interest in horror movies !
I want to see Nolan tackle Shakespeare. Or Gravity’s Rainbow. Or Wizard of Earthsea. Just something completely left-field that can be both lighter and creatively engaging.
Inception 2 lets go
I’d love to see Nolan do a mini series like a Band of Brothers type.
This is perfect year for nolan to win oscar.he has not won for his bestcworks as oscars more focuses on bipics,war genre,romance and some philosophy social message stuff.this might be last chance for him as oppenheimer ticks of oscar so called focused criteria Biopic✅ Ww2 setting✅ Hidden social message✅ Intricacies of himan behaviour philosophy stuff✅ Surely oppenheimer will win oscar for best adapted screen play but competition is going to be in major categories like best actor,picture,director,supporting actor. Fingers crossed he should win it this time
2:37 what's the brand of his watch?
He's gonna work on a james bond movie isn't he?
Can we get a movie with a shot from under the starship heavy engines in full blast? 💥
I love Nolan so much. Not everyone does and I get it. I appreciate that he kind of refuses to stop making the kind of movies that he wants to make.
Nolan: *speaks* Interviewer: "hm"
Period piece James Bond movie with Henry Cavill as 007.