Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017)

cowboyBuilder · 22-09-2015 5:39pm #1

So,
Seems Christopher Nolans new project has been announced http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5013056/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1, No plot details yet, but I'd imagine
Micheal Caine will star and Hans Zimmer will be doing the music

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But just curious looking at imdb, in the trivia section, seems any crap can be published :

Matthew McConaughey turned down the opportunity of reprising his role as Cooper in this follow up to Interstellar, so the script was rewritten to utilize the time shifts and Clint Eastwood was cast.

This is not the message board either, its the trivia section, should be true at least.

Sad Professor · 22-09-2015 6:18pm

Everything on IMDb, even the filmographies, is user-edited. Submissions are “checked” for accuracy, but not properly. There’s all sorts of rubbish on there.

humanji · 22-09-2015 6:19pm

Anyone can add trivia to IMDB, afaik.

I doubt any real information will come about this until the middle of next year and even then it'll only be tiny snippets.

The Black Oil · 22-09-2015 7:36pm

The only thing that's known is the date, afaik.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=45341

cowboyBuilder · 22-09-2015 10:07pm

I would love to have the discipline to just ignore all marketing for this and walk in to the cinema not knowing the plot like I did for The Prestige - greatest cinematic experience ever.

DoYouEvenLift · 22-09-2015 10:13pm

Is his brother working on this with him as well? I hope so. The two of them together are a killer team.

Also, this better be another 70mm IMAX spectacle.

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

So,
Seems Christopher Nolans new project has been announced http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5013056/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1, No plot details yet, but I'd imagine
[B¡]Micheal Caine will star and Hans Zimmer will be doing the music [/b]:).

But just curious looking at imdb, in the trivia section, seems any crap can be published :

This is not the message board either, its the trivia section, should be true at least.

Definitely did not see that coming!

Bacchus · 22-09-2015 10:13pm

So all Nolan has to do now is announce he is making a movie and the hype-train begins

nix · 23-09-2015 2:41am

Bacchus wrote: »

So all Nolan has to do now is announce he is making a movie and the hype-train begins

Choo choooooo! :pac:

Sphynxinatron · 12-10-2015 4:44am

Hope the climax in this one is better resolved. Man I was loving Interstellar but that thing about "love transcending space and time" actually influencing the plot really deminished the movie for me. It felt so un-Nolan ._.

JP Liz V1 · 12-10-2015 10:46pm

I would love if he did another film in same vein as Insomnia or Memento and got Joaquin Phoenix to star

gloobag · 12-10-2015 11:54pm

Apparently he's recently had meetings about a trilogy based on Akira. Probably with Leo DiCaprio involved in some way, as it's his production company that are making it.

JP Liz V1 · 29-12-2015 12:57am

His next film is Dunkirk set during the evacuation of the French town of Dunkirk during World War II with Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh and Mark Rylance to join the cast http://variety.com/2015/film/news/chistopher-nolan-mark-rylance-movie-1201662561/

warpdrive · 29-12-2015 1:08am

Interesting choice. Glad to see the mention of the plans to film and produce it for 70mm IMAX, Nolan fans who travelled to the UK to see his previous movies in the format will be doing that again I'm sure

humanji · 29-12-2015 1:19am

I kind of hope it's a straight up film about Dunkirk and doesn't involve sci-fi fanciness. I like Nolan as a director, but feel that his writing is subpar when he tries to force over the top "look how smart I am" twists into them, and it takes away from the finished product.

Simon2015 · 29-12-2015 1:52am

I wish Nolan would do something different there has already been more than enough films made about WW2.

ricero · 29-12-2015 1:31pm

Simon2015 wrote: »

I wish Nolan would do something different there has already been more than enough films made about WW2.

Im actually lookig forward to it. Want to how nolan does a historical war film

Mickeroo · 29-12-2015 1:37pm

Simon2015 wrote: »

I wish Nolan would do something different there has already been more than enough films made about WW2.

Well he's never done ww2 movie tbf, this will be a bit of a departure for him if it's just a straight up war film.

Hande hoche! · 29-12-2015 1:54pm

Dunkirk is an interesting choice. Should be decent at least.

Harry Palmr · 29-12-2015 2:10pm

So many CGI ships and boats and planes....:(

pixelburp · 29-12-2015 2:21pm

It's a fascinating part of ww2, and it'd certainly be hard to twist it into anything overtly jingoistic or flag-waving: it was the endpoint of a complete military disaster after all, with only the rallying of the various civilian & merchant ships saving the day, and most of the British army.

At this stage Nolan has tried his hands at so many genres and tones, it'd be interesting to see a straight-up historical tale. Lord knows he can command the kind of budget that'd enable him to film Dunkirk with the actual cast of thousands you'd need; anyone else would likely be forced into using CGI.

Sad Professor · 29-12-2015 2:31pm

Apart from Joe Wright’s Atonement, isn’t the evacuation of Dunkirk relatively virgin territory for WW2 movies, at least non-propaganda ones? Most Americans probably aren’t very familiar with it or have a simplistic understanding of what happened on the European Front pre-American involvement. It could be very interesting as well being a great showcase of old-school cinematic spectacle.

Harry Palmr · 29-12-2015 2:35pm

pixelburp wrote: »

It's a fascinating part of ww2, and it'd certainly be hard to twist it into anything overtly jingoistic or flag-waving: it was the endpoint of a complete military disaster after all, with only the rallying of the various civilian & merchant ships saving the day, and most of the British army.

At this stage Nolan has tried his hands at so many genres and tones, it'd be interesting to see a straight-up historical tale. Lord knows he can command the kind of budget that'd enable him to film Dunkirk with the actual cast of thousands you'd need; anyone else would likely be forced into using CGI.

Sad Professor wrote: »

Apart from Joe Wright’s Atonement, isn’t the evacuation of Dunkirk relatively virgin territory for WW2 movies, at least non-propaganda ones? Most Americans probably aren’t very familiar with it or have a simplistic understanding of what happened on the European Front pre-American involvement. It could be very interesting as well being a great showcase of old-school cinematic spectacle.

Which is why the budget for this film will not be as big as Nolan would ideally like or indeed need to do it "for real".

There is no chance of the average hayseed trooping out to see this, no heroic Americans and no romantic angle even.

Sad Professor · 29-12-2015 2:42pm

After the string of box office hits he's had, I think Nolan will get whatever budget he wants. It won't be all "real" of course. That's impossible.

And we don't know what the story is yet. Maybe he'll shoehorn some Americans into the mix.

Harry Palmr · 29-12-2015 2:56pm

Sad Professor wrote: »

After the string of box office hits he's had, I think Nolan will get whatever budget he wants. It won't be all "real" of course. That's impossible.

And we don't know what the story is yet. Maybe he'll shoehorn some Americans into the mix.

Ah yes that forgotten band of brothers who were caught behind enemy lines, as their ensemble played at Calais and Nieuport.

Starring Denzel Washington as Jeff "jazz hands" Murphy and Idris Elba as Trombone Toots-Tim.

Hande hoche! · 29-12-2015 8:42pm

Sad Professor wrote: »

After the string of box office hits he's had, I think Nolan will get whatever budget he wants. It won't be all "real" of course. That's impossible.

And we don't know what the story is yet. Maybe he'll shoehorn some Americans into the mix.

Probably throw in a few American volunteer pilots flying for the RAF.

TerrorFirmer · 29-12-2015 8:53pm

The scope is endless, it could be a film about the immediate evacuation itself, or it could also cover several days prior to that point.

It's a topic that's barely been covered before, even though it's importance is beyond words.

Without Dunkirk, there would have been no Battle of Britain, and no D-Day. It was a tremendous achievement.

Harry Palmr · 29-12-2015 9:16pm

It would be a genuine insult if an American pops up in this film, but Nolan would be perfectly aware of that so I doubt he'd pander.

TerrorFirmer · 29-12-2015 9:22pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

It would be a genuine insult if an American pops up in this film, but Nolan would be perfectly aware of that so I doubt he'd pander.

That's a bit sensationalist, as previously pointed out there were Americans flying with the RAF prior to American involvement in the war.

degrassinoel · 29-12-2015 9:35pm

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

That's a bit sensationalist, as previously pointed out there were Americans flying with the RAF prior to American involvement in the war.

Afaik there were as many Irish pilots in the RAF as there were Americans, which wasnt that many, 10 or so.. and the Polish had the biggest non-national numbers in it's ranks, they (The Polish) also held the highest kill ratio for enemy planes.

I'm looking forward to this though, in churchill's words the events leading to Dunkirk were a "colossal military disaster" - He himself expected that only 20 -30,000 would be rescued, in actual fact, the number rescued was in excess of 338,000 including french forces.

I hope that Nolan shows that the remainder of the french army held those beaches until the bitter end - most of whom were either killed or captured

Harry Palmr · 29-12-2015 9:46pm

Canadians would be more plausible. Americans formed their own Eagle Squadrons in the RAF but not until the summer in 1940.

Hande hoche! · 29-12-2015 10:23pm

degrassinoel wrote: »

Afaik there were as many Irish pilots in the RAF as there were Americans, which wasnt that many, 10 or so.. and the Polish had the biggest non-national numbers in it's ranks, they (The Polish) also held the highest kill ratio for enemy planes.

I'm looking forward to this though, in churchill's words the events leading to Dunkirk were a "colossal military disaster" - He himself expected that only 20 -30,000 would be rescued, in actual fact, the number rescued was in excess of 338,000 including french forces.

I hope that Nolan shows that the remainder of the french army held those beaches until the bitter end - most of whom were either killed or captured

Fair point, the Poles contribution to the Allied effort is usually understated by popular media. Still I expect Nolan's work to be more historically accurate than say U-571.

Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017)

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