Fantasy Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

[BatLobster]

If it’s Damon it’ll be the most conventional “movie star” leading man he’s had since McConaughey in Interstellar. Would also be his oldest lead since Pacino in Insomnia.

Borys also said it was a father-son story and then immediately walked that back. Could be wrong here too.

True. Didn’t realize it was the same writer. I still think it would make sense.

It could also see a scenario where he was loosely inspired by The Prisoner, but ended up taking it in enough new directions that it just becomes a new original idea. Sort of how Tenet was inspired by Bond but still its own thing.

 

[Filmfreak]

Maybe a mixture of the two. Bourne tries to retire once again, only this time instead of CIA sending another assassin after him, they take him to The Prisoner's island.

 

[Gothamsknight]

Could this be sci fi horror potentially?

 

[blueharvest]

Could this be sci fi horror potentially?

You never know. The only person who knows for sure at this point is Christopher Nolan.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

You never know. The only person who knows for sure at this point is Christopher Nolan.

I'm sure his wife knows.

 

[Gee]

I'm kinda hoping for a thriller (The Prestige, Insomnia).

 

[BatLobster]

Could this be sci fi horror potentially?

Not sure my body could handle that and Spielberg's UFO movie in the same summer.

Safe bet that it will be high-concept, whatever it is though. He's not going to not take a big swing post-Oppie success.

 

[elgaz]

It's a time-manipulating Interstellar prequel which also doubles as an Inception spin-off, focusing on the years Damon's Interstellar character Dr Mann spent in hypersleep and the amazing adventures he got up to in all the various levels of his dream reality.

*edit - no it's not.

 

[Filmfreak]

Regarding The Prisoner, even if it wasn't disputed in the article I doubt he's ever going to do that. He had signed to do so at a time when he was doing lower budget films as well and he has now openly said that he sees he has a rare freedom budget-wise compared to other filmmakers and that he'll be doing big scale movies for as long as he can. Also he's much more into original stuff now.

But more importantly he had signed to do that before the 2009 remake miniseres was a thing. Remember that Howard Hughes script he had that he really wanted to do and decided to lock away forever after the Scorsese film came out? Yeah, I don't see him doing that ever, to be honest.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Regarding The Prisoner, even if it wasn't disputed in the article I doubt he's ever going to do that. He had signed to do so at a time when he was doing lower budget films as well and he has now openly said that he sees he has a rare freedom budget-wise compared to other filmmakers and that he'll be doing big scale movies for as long as he can. Also he's much more into original stuff now.

But more importantly he had signed to do that before the 2009 remake miniseres was a thing. Remember that Howard Hughes script he had that he really wanted to do and decided to lock away forever after the Scorsese film came out? Yeah, I don't see him doing that ever, to be honest.

To be fair, The Prisoner can very much be a big scale movie. The concept is huge.

And The Aviator was an Oscar nominated epic film by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The Prisoner miniseries is all but forgotten even at the time that had no impact at all.

Not saying The Prisoner will be his next film, but it's definitely on the grand scale of things if he or anyone ever decided to make a feature film out of it.

 

[Filmfreak]

To be fair, The Prisoner can very much be a big scale movie. The concept is huge.

And The Aviator was an Oscar nominated epic film by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The Prisoner miniseries is all but forgotten even at the time that had no impact at all.

Not saying The Prisoner will be his next film, but it's definitely on the grand scale of things if he or anyone ever decided to make a feature film out of it.

You have a point, but still, his choices in fiction is always stuff we haven't seen before in live action. He always seems to want to bring fresh ideas or perspectives and I just don't see it happening, especially after a second version came out in the last 15 years. Maybe I'm wrong but I think that's not a choice today's Nolan would do, which is a reason he hasn't done it all those years in the first place. I guess we'll see.

 

[J.Drangal]

Warner watching this happen, swallowing a sob, a tear running down his clown make-up...

 

[BatLobster]

I definitely wouldn't entirely rule out The Prisoner based on scale-- if you look at what Jonathan Nolan did with Westworld, it could be in the same sort of wheelhouse. You take the original spirit of an older property and really modernize it and blow it up into something massive. Seems like a Nolan-y thing to do. As far as there being another recent version...there being a somewhat recent miniseries on The Manhattan Project didn't stop him from doing a movie on the subject.

Just playing devil's advocate though, I really have no idea and no real preference even. Just let the guy cook and I'm there. Whether it's an adaptation or something original, it's a guarantee that he'll bring his unique spin to whatever it is.

 

[Filmfreak]

I'm expecting Nolan to do a more massive film than Oppie, though. In the last decade he's been taking turns between one 100 million dollar big scale awards movie and one epic scale 200 million dollars original high concept one. Not that he can't break that trend but after winning an Oscar I'm guessing something closer to the latter.

 

[BatLobster]

I'm expecting Nolan to do a more massive film than Oppie, though. In the last decade he's been taking turns between one 100 million dollar big scale awards movie and one epic scale 200 million dollars original high concept one. Not that he can't break that trend but after winning an Oscar I'm guessing something closer to the latter.

I agree. Also based on some of the things Emma was saying during the Oppie press alluding to his next project, I just got the impression that it was gonna be something big that they were really excited about. Nolan also alluded to maybe not wanting his next project to be as bleak as Oppenheimer was.

 

[Filmfreak]

I agree. Also based on some of the things Emma was saying during the Oppie press alluding to his next project, I just got the impression that it was gonna be something big that they were really excited about. Nolan also alluded to maybe not wanting his next project to be as bleak as Oppenheimer was.

Interesting. What did they say?

 

[BatLobster]

Interesting. What did they say?

This was mainly the quote I was thinking of from Emma. Chris has been more tight-lipped as usual, but I do recall something about how he was pretty spent by the end of Oppenheimer because of how dark the subject matter was and how maybe he'd go towards something less bleak next time. (But of course now we know he pretty much already had his next project figured out when they were still doing Oppenheimer press)

While teasing about the director’s next venture, Thomas told the publication, “I would say it’s very exciting. This is the moment where the possibilities are sort of limitless, we haven’t started thinking practicalities, or anything.”

“Oppenheimer was so absurdly successful and we feel like we have an opportunity.”

Christopher Nolan’s next film after Oppenheimer teased

Not too many ways to read that other than "We just made Universal a billion dollars on a biopic, so you're damn right we're about to cash a blank check to do bonkers sh** that I have no idea how we're even going to pull off yet."

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

YAY for a new Nolan project.

MEH to Matt Damon.

Am I the only one that finds him incredibly boring as an actor?

 

[Gothamsknight]

Warner watching this happen, swallowing a sob, a tear running down his clown make-up...

Its their own fault

 

[Drizzle]

Warner watching this happen, swallowing a sob, a tear running down his clown make-up...

I truly believe he'll work with them again in his career since the bridge seems to have been mended. It just would have been a bad look for him to go with any other studio besides Universal for his next film after the immense success of Oppenheimer.

 

[Lasirius]

YAY for a new Nolan project.

MEH to Matt Damon.

Am I the only one that finds him incredibly boring as an actor?

Nope, I agree with you My first thought was "uninspired casting" but who knows what the role is, so I'll reserve judgement until then. Well, full judgement haha.

 

[emielaen]

Damon is a liiiiitle boring as a lead for the next Nolan film, but he's not a boring performer imo. It's not super exciting is all.

 

[Stringer]

I think he's great when playing a sleaze like Ripley or Colin Sullivan, but yeah pretty boring as a common lead.

 

[Zantera]

Matt Damon isn't the most exciting name but he's usually good/great at least. For me this feels a bit similar to Leo in Inception who is another actor I think is "great but not amazing" but it's also hard to say much more about Damon being in this considering we don't know more information. What is the movie about? What genre? Who are the supporting actors?

 

[Filmfreak]

I agree that Damon is not the most exciting name but he's more than decent and the stars in Nolan movies are the movies themselves.

Also I much prefer him as an actor compared to John David Washington for instance.