Christopher Nolan talks about Tenet's connection to his previous movies
Christopher Nolan has revealed how his eagerly-anticipated spy thriller Tenet links back to his previous movies.
Speaking to Digital Spy and other press, Nolan spoke about how the movie is one he's been thinking about "for a long time, decades really". As a result, there are elements, such as "certain images", that connect to his previous efforts.
"People who know my earlier work will recognise some of the tropes, like the bullet coming out of the wall and back into the gun. It's something that's portrayed metaphorically in Memento, but here we try to make it concrete and a real thing," he explained.
"This particular script and the idea of taking the spy genre and really trying to use it as a vehicle for taking the audience on this journey through all these bizarre concepts of time, I've been working on that for 6 or 7 years in specific terms."
During the development on Tenet, Nolan's main aim was to align his desire to make an engaging spy movie with the wilder time inversion concept of Tenet's world.
"That [development] period was spent trying to reconcile the peculiarities of construction that were required in the script to explain and embrace the concept of time with the relatively straightforward experience for the audience of being on a ride," he noted.
That ride takes the Protagonist (John David Washington) and the audience all around the world. It gives Tenet a true sense of escapism and this was something influenced by one of his favourite James Bond movies, The Spy Who Loved Me.
"I try not to watch it too often, but when I watched it recently and showed it to my kids, you can tap back into those early experiences. I think I was about seven years old when I saw it, I went with my dad to the cinema to see it," he recalled.
"What I remember and what I try to retain from that experience is the feeling of possibility, that you could jump through that screen and go anywhere in the world and see the most amazing things.
"It had such scale and such possibility really, it was pure escapism and excellent fantasy component to it as well with the car that turns into a submarine and all that stuff.
"I think I've spent a lot of my career trying to get back to that feeling and give that feeling to audiences, take you back to that sense of wonderment about the possibilities of what movies can do and where they can take you."
Tenet is released in UK cinemas on August 26 and in US cinemas from September 3.
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