C. Nolan's Interstellar

[Bruce Malone]

not enough aliens, dinosaurs, adventurers, or child like wonder(though prestige and inception were pretty interesting on that front).

I'm not talking about in terms of style per se. More so I think he will be cemented as the preeminent director in terms of blockbuster/critical success around. Similar to how spielberg was seen in the 80's to early 90's.

 

[Spideyfan93]

Nolan made a great decision with this flick! Can't ****ing wait!

 

[Octoberist]

I'm not talking about in terms of style per se. More so I think he will be cemented as the preeminent director in terms of blockbuster/critical success around. Similar to how spielberg was seen in the 80's to early 90's.

I see Nolan as a more accessible Kubrick than Speilberg.

 

[Bruce Malone]

I see Nolan as a more accessible Kubrick than Speilberg.

Hmm that's one way to put it. However we haven't really had a director since spielberg in his prime to be able to combine very popular works with critical acclaim.

I see nolan taking over that role.

 

[Octoberist]

Hmm that's one way to put it. However we haven't really had a director since spielberg in his prime to be able to combine very popular works with critical acclaim.

I see nolan taking over that role.

It's hard to say. usually it's not just one movie but te whole filmography that makes Spielberg the man that he is. A cohesive visionary that tapped into our imagination.

You can argue that JJ Abrams or Joss Whedon are similar in vein to Speilberg; a touch of awe and wonder. But their work on TV is a lot more extensive than their film work since they barely got into that realm. You can add Brad Bird too but he just got into directing live action and he's in his 50's now. I guess you can add Gueillimo Del Toro as a gothic Speilberg and again, he depends how cohesive and often he puts out a movie. Plus he isn't kid friendly and I still think he hasn't done an American/English film that cements him into pop culture. Well until Pacific Rim hits.

Note: Spielberg was in his mid 20's when he did Jaws; he was a kid who was just one of a kind, being able to pump out classic after classic at an early age. I guess theres where Nolan and Spielberg was similar in: started off young with quality work. Nolan is still relatively young now to boot.

What I'm saying is that Spielberg can never be fully replicated. It would be a fools erand.

 

[Octoberist]

Might I add that M. Night had a shot at being Spielberg-esq in legacy and he ruined it four times in a row.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Yeah spielberg was/is one of a kind. He won't be replicated. It's just that most directors now fall into the blockbuster or critical acclaim categories with very few being able to capture and cross over into both audiences with their pictures.

Spielberg was the master at that.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Yeah spielberg was/is one of a kind. He won't be replicated. It's just that most directors now fall into the blockbuster or critical acclaim categories with very few being able to capture and cross over into both audiences with their pictures.

Spielberg is the master at that.

Agreed, and fixed.

 

[Octoberist]

Spielberg was just an anomaly in my eyes. He came in at the right time: right amount of talent, the right era, and during the birth period of generation X, a generation that started to embrace geek culture and didn't see it as a taboo.

 

[DACrowe]

I think he may become the preeminent entertainer who marries art and spectacle. Similarly, I'd say before Spielberg there was Hitchcock. Vastly different style, but Hitchcock was a great entertainer for the masses but made artistic classics that were both wildly entertaining (though more through suspense and mystery than Spielberg's staple of awe and wonder) and critically respected. Also, like pre-Schindler's List Spielberg and Hitchcock, Nolan is clearly despised by the Academy. Obviously, TDKR was going to get no serious nods, but not even a VFX or Sound Mixing? After they snubbed him on Inception, TDK and Memento, I'd say it's safe to say they don't like his high-minded mainstream accessibility. So, there is another similarity.

 

[Octoberist]

Yeah, I agree that Speilberg and Hitchcock are one and the same, with differing styles: They're household names.

 

[georgec]

I would love to see Guy Pearce come back into the Nolan fold.

As long as he's in old man makeup!

 

[rashad]

The Migratory Habits Of 800-Pound Gorilla Oscar Directors And The Films They Make
By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday January 10, 2013 @ 4:27pm EST

News also broke last night that The Dark Knight Rises helmer Chris Nolan has focused his attention on Interstellar, which could only have happened after Spielberg decided it wasn’t a good fit for him. Spielberg set up the project in 2006 after becoming intrigued by Caltech physicist and relativity expert Kip S. Thorne and his scientific theory that wormholes exist and can be used for time travel. Paramount (after it bought DreamWorks) signed on a year later and set Jonah Nolan to write it. The Nolan siblings obviously work well together (Jonah hatched the short story that became Chris’ first hit Memento, and they collaborated on two Batfilms and The Prestige. Insiders tell me that Chris Nolan is writing a script that merges an original idea of his with the script that Jonah wrote. It will retain the title Interstellar, and the ambition for the project is a film that will depict a heroic interstellar voyage to the farthest borders of our scientific understanding. If it all pans out, he’ll direct. Nolan’s unofficial home studio, Warner Bros, has been kissed into the deal as a co-production partner with Paramount, and Chris Nolan and Emma Thomas are producing with Lynda Obst. Jordan Goldberg is joining as exec producer alongside Thorne, who’ll remain on as technical consultant.

I’d like to add a timely aside about Nolan: I recall emerging from a summer IMAX preview screening of The Dark Knight Rises feeling confident the film and its maker would be in the center of the Oscar conversation, for completing his trilogy as strongly as Jackson did The Lord Of The Rings. All of that was shattered by the violence in an Aurora, Colorado midnight screening days later, which stamped The Dark Knight Returns in a completely unexpected context. In the face of that, Nolan issued a heartfelt statement that was hailed by numerous filmmakers I’d spoken to as mirroring exactly the way they felt. Nolan has not mentioned the tragedy since, and while Warner Bros tried to get voters to remember the film, Nolan took a low-key approach to Oscar season that speaks to his classiness, self-awareness and understanding that an awards season snub was by far the least important bad thing that happened in the wake of his exceptional film’s opening.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/the...irectors-and-the-films-they-make/#more-401073

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I’d like to add a timely aside about Nolan: I recall emerging from a summer IMAX preview screening of The Dark Knight Rises feeling confident the film and its maker would be in the center of the Oscar conversation, for completing his trilogy as strongly as Jackson did The Lord Of The Rings. All of that was shattered by the violence in an Aurora, Colorado midnight screening days later, which stamped The Dark Knight Returns in a completely unexpected context.

Really?

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Or, maybe, ya know, the movie wasn't Oscar worthy. But totally go ahead a blame a films lack of Oscar noms on the life shattering tragedy

 

[Solidus]

Though it is ludicrous that some blame the shooting on it's chances, I think it's no problem that some should think it deserves a best pic nod (though I am not one of them). Honestly looking at the best pic list there is a few I would trade out but oh well.

I hope this film will be something once again that will get the Oscar's attention. I felt he was still robbed with Inception/TDK. TDKR though.....not really. But some think that and I guess it's fine.

 

[Britannic]

This is great news. Somehow I thought Nolan would continue doing big budget movies rather than go back to smaller ones (which I would be similarly excited about too)

I'd like to see Gary Oldman and Guy Pearce in some main roles

 

[kvz5]

JGL plays the younger version of the lead character while Guy Pearce plays the older version of the lead character.

 

[Octoberist]

Chris will be rewriting the script.

News regarding Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse wasn’t the only “mega director” story to hit last night, as we also learned that Christopher Nolan is in talks to direct the sci-fi film Interstellar as his next project. There’s a link between the two filmmakers, as Nolan’s brother Jonathan Nolan originally wrote the Interstellar script years ago for Spielberg to direct. Details on the film are understandably under wraps, but the story is inspired by the work of physicist Kip Thorne and involves a group of explorers traveling through a wormhole, where they encounter time travel and alternate dimensions.

Now a few more details have surfaced regarding Interstellar, chief of which is that Christopher Nolan will be writing the script himself in order to incorporate an original idea of his own. Hit the jump for more details.

Buried in a report on Deadline is the news that Chris Nolan is penning a script that merges an original idea of his with the previous script that Jonathan Nolan wrote. This isn’t exactly a shock, as the brothers have collaborated on the scripts for The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises. As I understand it, they normally take separate passes on the script instead of writing side by side, so the idea of Christopher taking Jonathan’s draft and rewriting it makes sense.

The report also has a more revealing logline for the film, noting that the film “will depict a heroic interstellar voyage to the furthest borders of our scientific understanding.” The deal is being set up at Paramount with Chris Nolan, Emma Thomas, and Lynda Obst producing, but Nolan’s longtime studio Warner Bros. will also be in the fold as a co-production partner with Paramount. Thorne will remain onboard as a technical consultant.

http://collider.com/christopher-nolan-interstellar-script/223165/

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

JGL plays the younger version of the lead character while Guy Pearce plays the older version of the lead character.

t:

 

[CapedCrusader14]

JGL will put in a performance that literally convinces us that he is actually Guy Pearce.

 

[Dragon_316ca]

JGL plays the younger version of the lead character while Guy Pearce plays the older version of the lead character.

Interlooper?

 

[747]

Really?

Even if I feel the same way about the movie as he does, it's so unnecessary and cheap to blame it's lack of oscar noms on the tragedy.

It's quite obvious that the oscar academy are no Nolan fans anyway.

 

[Solidus]

Chris will be rewriting the script.



http://collider.com/christopher-nolan-interstellar-script/223165/

A heroic interstellar voyage to the furthest borders of our scientific understanding.

Drool.

 

[kvz5]

Interloopereus?

Fixed.