Nolan tackles 'Inception' for WB
Studio gets 'Dark Knight' director for sci-fi pic



Warner Bros. is tying up a big deal with its "Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan for a big-scale spec script titled "Inception" that Nolan wrote and will direct as his likely next film.

WB is aiming for a summer 2010 release; production begins this summer.

Nolan will produce with Emma Thomas.

Christopher Nolan inks 'Inception'
Sets up original screenplay at Warner Bros.



Christopher Nolan has set up his next project with Warner Bros., an original screenplay he wrote called "Inception." The "Dark Knight" director hopes to shoot the sci-fi action film in the summer for a release during summer 2010.

Nolan will produce with partner Emma Thomas, who served as a producer on "The Dark Knight."

"Chris Nolan is a visionary filmmaker who continually raises the bar with each movie he makes," Warner Bros. Pictures Group president Jeff Robinov said. "We are thrilled to be collaborating again with him and Emma on this exciting new motion picture."

Given the billion-dollar bonanza Nolan delivered with "Knight," one would suppose a treatment based on some poems he wrote in his fifth-grade journal would have gotten the green light. The writer-director-producer has done well by the studio, with "Insomnia," "Batman Begins" and "The Prestige" bringing in close to half a billion in additional theatrical revenue.

"Inception" is described as "a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind."

This pushes back any potential filming on a new Batman film, but three years -- and "The Prestige" -- passed between "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight." Nolan has also long been attached to direct a big-screen adaptation of the British TV series "The Prisoner" for producer Scott Stuber at Universal.

The CAA-repped Nolan wrote the screenplays for "Memento," based on a short story written by his brother, Jonathan, and "Following," his debut feature in 1998. The only directing project he hasn't written is "Insomnia," his 2002 remake of the Norwegian thriller.

He and Jonathan (with story credit) earned Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for their "Memento" script, which won an Independent Spirit Award for best screenplay and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance in 2001. Their "Dark Knight" screenplay earned a WGA Award nomination this year for best adapted screenplay (with David S. Goyer).

Finally Christopher Nolan is into sci-fi !!!
And I think his next movie after Inception will be Batman 3 , which will probably his last Bat movie......   After all you can't expect him to do Batman for the rest of his career, isn't it? He got to move on......

DiCaprio Will Star In Nolan's Inception



Leonardo DiCaprio will star in "Inception," the science-fiction film that Christopher Nolan wrote and will direct as his next pic at Warner Bros, reports the trades

The project shoots this year and is slated to be released in summer 2010, with Nolan and Emma Thomas producing. DiCaprio's deal is in final negotiations.

Script has been kept under wraps but the studio calls it a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind.

DiCaprio, coming off "Revolutionary Road" and "Body of Lies," will next be seen starring in the Martin Scorsese-directed "Shutter Island" at Paramount.

Marion Cotillard

Leonardo DiCaprio

Joseph Gordon-Levitt 

Ellen Page

Michael Caine 

Cillian Murphy 

Ken Watanabe

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EPIC CAST!!!! 

Next summer's movie better dont disappoint me.

Inception looks like it's gonna be good.

Really hope this one doesnt disappoint me.

A contemporary science fiction action thriller set within the architecture of the mind.

What is this movie about anyway?

holy mother of god jesus christ. the trailer gave me chills!
love how the city was folding it's way up.
0.33 seconds reminded me of gotham city background at night.
whats Leo gonna steal ?
and also loving the slow motions as well



lol

the girl at the end of the trailer shouting "wake me up", what could it be ? hmm
im blown off by the trailer. wow, i cant wait for 16 july 2010. a must watch movie. enough said.

So early....this movie is gonna be overhyped and in the end fall short of everyones expectation.

Typical....typical....

Nolan have never actually made a bad film, and the last film he directed is one of the biggest hyped film of all time, to many ppl suprise it actually deliver and surpass many expectation, so i think it is safe to say this will be a good film, maybe even a great one.

Bigger than Batman: Christopher Nolan says 'Inception' is 'the biggest challenge I've taken on'



So what exactly is “Inception”? That’s a popular question after a visually dazzling but enigmatic trailer was released for a film that didn’t exactly clear things up with its title.

Is it an international thriller? A story of madness and lost love? Or Hollywood’s very first metaphysical heist movie? The answer is “all of the above,” according to writer-director Christopher Nolan, whose follow-up to “The Dark Knight” seems to have Ian Fleming, the Wachowski Brothers and Sigmund Freud as its spiritual advisors.

“I think we’ve put a lot of different things into the pot with this one,” Nolan said this week during a break from the editing bay.

“I grew up watching James Bond films and loving those and watching spy movies with their globetrotting sensibility.... We get to do that here, not just geographically but also in time and dimensions of reality as well. We get to make a movie that’s expansive, I suppose you’d say, in four dimensions.”

The Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. release is shaping up as one of the most intriguing releases of 2010. Leonardo DiCaprio leads a cast that includes Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page and Ken Watanabe.

The film was produced by Emma Thomas, who is Nolan's wife as well as his career partner. She said that "Inception" is a story that requires a huge canvas. The pair didn't set out looking for a way to top their Batman epic in scope, that's just where Nolan's "Inception" script took them.

“It’s something that we had been talking about on and off for seven or eight years," Thomas said. "Coming off of the ‘The Dark Knight,’ the only thing we really knew is that we wanted to do something more personal. It seemed like the right time to do this. The fact that it’s really just an enormous movie -- that wasn’t ever really a factor in the decision. This story lends itself to a movie of this size."

A key part of the premise is corporate espionage by way of dream invasion, but motives and even reality are slippery in a film that toys with perception as its travels through time and space. The crew covered a lot of territory too, filming in six countries.

“This is the biggest challenge I’ve taken on to this point,” said Nolan, who may return to Gotham City for his next feature. “We’re trying to tell a story on a massive scale, a true blockbuster scale – the biggest I’ve ever been involved with. We tried to make a very large-scale film with ‘The Dark Knight’ and with this one we wanted to push that even further.”

Leonardo DiCaprio Says Inception “Didn’t Make Sense to Many of Us When We Were Doing It”

The material and its complexity are what I’m attracted to…I’ve been lucky to work with people who want to tell stories that hit on different cylinders simultaneously. ‘Shutter Island’ is definitely that. ‘Inception’ is the same. It is Chris delving into dream psychoanalysis and, at the same time, making a high-octane, surreal film that came from his mind. He wrote the entire thing, and it all made sense to him. It didn’t make sense to many of us when we were doing it. We had to do a lot of detective work (laughing) to figure out what the movie was about.

I watched the trailer and was like wth... the whole street and buildings bending like that... 

Looks set to be the year's most anticipated flick!

Haha...C. Nolan managed to make one trailer that nobody can really understand!!!   
I guess we shud wait for the next trailer then

New Inception Tidbits: Plot Details Confirmed, Running Time and Conception



There hasn’t been much new on the Inception front recently, but I thought I’d cover some of the recent tidbits we’ve missed.

/Film Shane T informs us that in the February issue of Empire Magazine, there is a very brief mention of Inception in the “On-Set Preview” section, where it states that writer/director Christopher Nolan came up with the idea for the movie when he was only 16 years old. Crazy…

Secondly, Playlist has also reprinted a quote Nolan gave the magazine which further confirms the leaked plot line from last year:

“Basically the film deals with levels of reality, and perceptions of reality which is something I’m very interested in. Its an action film set in a contemporary world, but with a slight science-fiction bent to it. Cobb [Leonardo DiCaprio's character], who is the center of things and expert in a particular technology that the film revolves around, has put this team around him [Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon Levitt]. It’s very much an ensemble film structured somewhat as a heist movie. It’s an action adventure that spans the globe.”

And lastly, star Leonardo Dicaprio was recently interviewed by movies.ie where he was asked about Inception, and answered:

“I can tell you it’s about two hours long, give or take,” DiCaprio smiles. “Anything more than that, and Chris has vowed to have me strung up by my tongue…”

Christopher Nolan Filmed Some of Inception Using 65mm, Calls 3D “An Interesting Development”

“We have the highest quality image of any film that’s being made and that allows us to reformat the film for any distribution form that we’d like to put it in. We’re definitely going to do an IMAX release. We’re excited about doing that and using our original negative 65mm photography to maximize the effect of that release.”

“3D I think is an interesting development in movies or the resurgence of 3D. It’s something we’re looking at and watching. There are certain limitations of shooting in 3D. You have to shoot on video, which I’m not a fan of. I like shooting on film. And so then you’re looking at post-conversion processes which are moving forward in very exciting ways.”

holly shit, was that the best trailer or best movie this year ?
to much shown in the trailer guys, so if i was you, just stick to the 1st or 2nd trailer.

god damn it, should've stayed away from the 3rd trailer

****!  

ya, should put in the "watch at your own risk" tag, my bad

but have faith in Nolan, there is still more about this movie that have not been revealed

Too much given away in third trailer? Then this will be a pass for me!

Unless of course trailer shows up in cinemas.

Yeah, I dont think it revealed all that much. It does give us a proper premise though, so you at least know what the movie is about now. Some prefer not knowing anything before blindly going in, but I dont think some basic information wont hurt it. And yes, "Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up we realize that something is actually strange.", is an awesome line, not because it sounds cool, but because, damn, it's so true. I guess that line provides the context in which you see all the weird stuff happening. It's certainly sounds very original and interesting and one movie I will definitely watch.

That said, the new trailer does set it up as a rather conventionally structured film. It looks like one of those heist movies, albeit a very high concept one. You have the recruiting process, the planning, the execution, the getaway, all done with a whole bunch of varied characters. Still, I'm not going to miss it. When was the last time a big-budget film actually had an original idea of its own?

Good. Quiet a few actor/es frpm the Dark Knight. I guess they're Nolan's favourite huh?

I don't understand what's happening in the trailer lol.
I don't even know what the basic theory is.

Warner Bros has released a new featurette for Christopher Nolan’s Inception, giving us a better look at the characters who inhabit the story. The two minute featurette plays less like a behind the scenes interview piece (in fact, there ate no interviews at all), and more like a character-centric movie trailer.

Nice. I think the best thing I've read about it is that there is an emotional core to it. It didn't seem that way from the trailers.

I just finished one of Nolan's films - Insomnia. Great.

Go with The Prestige. I love that movie to bits.

Can't wait. Dammit!!

I've seen it. Another great film.
Can't wait for the movie or your Counter Strike to finish downloading? haha. Btw I'm not at my PC. From my signature I can see that my brother is playing TF2 lol.

Nice. I think the best thing I've read about it is that there is an emotional core to it. It didn't seem that way from the trailers.

I just finished one of Nolan's films - Insomnia. Great.