This week, the Wall Street Journal put into words what we all suspected: After Warner Bros.
made its controversial decision to move its 2021 slate to a hybrid release model, “Tenet” filmmaker Christopher Nolan is “unlikely to return to the studio with his next project.” (Neither Warners nor Nolan’s reps responded to requests for comment.)Warner Bros.
announced its HBO Max strategy December 3, and Nolan came forward December 7 to express “disbelief” over the decision.
Nolan, who has spent much of the pandemic fighting for the survival of movie theaters (an op-ed in March; a UK petition this week), criticized his longtime studio for sending films to its “fledgling streaming service.” Nolan also slammed the studio for not providing its directors, actors, and other artists with so much as a heads up.In the promotional push for the December VOD launch of “Tenet,” Nolan told the Associated Press he was “relieved
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