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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Mar 12, 2024 18:42:45 GMT
I hope the news is fake. He is in a position where he can successfully churn out any wild, original idea he has and every studio out there would write him blank checks. I'd be seriously disappointed if he uses that power to remake an old property. He’s been in that position for a while. This has been a long time passion project of his. If he wants to make it I don’t see what the issue is?
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Post by Pavan on Mar 12, 2024 18:44:06 GMT
I hope the news is fake. He is in a position where he can successfully churn out any wild, original idea he has and every studio out there would write him blank checks. I'd be seriously disappointed if he uses that power to remake an old property. He’s been in that position for a while. This has been a long time passion project of his. If he wants to make it I don’t see what the issue is? Really? could you provide a link for this so that i can read?
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Mar 12, 2024 18:58:09 GMT
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Post by Pavan on Mar 12, 2024 19:08:30 GMT
There's no mention in the article that the film was his passion project.
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Post by franklin on Mar 12, 2024 19:42:10 GMT
That was an old rumour, just clickbait and confusion. Classic media journalism.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Mar 12, 2024 20:02:39 GMT
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Mar 12, 2024 20:15:21 GMT
There's no mention in the article that the film was his passion project. Kinda thought it was implied by the fact it's a project he let go of over a decade ago and may be reviving. Also by the fact it was his next project lined up after The Dark Knight gave him carte blanche (that he then used on Inception, another project he had been developing for about a decade).
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Post by Lord_Buscemi on Mar 12, 2024 20:42:12 GMT
He should do a goofy sex comedy with gross-out fart gags and a pop punk soundtrack starring Seann William Scott
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Post by Martin Stett on Mar 12, 2024 21:01:45 GMT
The Prisoner is a masterpiece, and I can't imagine Nolan making a masterpiece. He's a solid craftsman, but the guy is far too exposition focused and literal for a story that is so dreamlike and surreal. He is not suited to this job.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 13, 2024 20:44:51 GMT
Here is an article from last year that says Nolan dropped out of The Prisoner years ago because he couldn’t quite “crack” the adaptation. This being his next project actually seems plausible since his current relationship with the head of Universal, Donna Langley, actually started with trying to develop the film adaptation of The Prisoner years ago... and of course Universal is where he ended up for Oppenheimer because the two stayed in touch even while he was with Warner Bros. Could be that he and Langley are now trying to revive the project after already having worked on it together a while back. If this is his next film, it will be interesting to see how he managed to finally “crack” it. Another sci-fi “spy” movie like Tenet... it would also be funny if from now on he just alternates between doing sci-fi movies and prestige films.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 16, 2024 5:20:11 GMT
A GREAT idea..and one rooted in Pop Culture cultism the way Batman is rooted in Pop Culture mass appeal........not only the inspiration for an Iron Maiden song - um - but a great role for an actor starring...........maybe the most underrated actor of all - time, one of 'em anyway Patrick McGoohan.......whoever gets cast in this is basically getting a slam dunk role unless Nolan fucks it up which I can't imagine.............. Cumberbatch right? If this is Nolan’s next film, I’m sure he’d make the adaptation his own in a way that feels like an original project, like his remake of Insomnia, so I wonder if that could possibly extend to the casting of the lead role... someone unlike McGoohan perhaps, maybe even a female lead, which would be a first for Nolan. No one expected him to cast John David Washington, the first PoC to lead a Nolan film, and while Nolan never spoke openly about this, that decision felt to me at least partially motivated by all the talk from people wanting a black James Bond (so he created his own black Bond to star in his own Bond film). He could make a similar move here and make the lead in The Prisoner a female secret agent (The Prisoner does have a bit of James Bond in its DNA). And since Nolan’s more recent films do seem to, in part, act as responses to various criticisms that have been leveled at his films over the years, casting a female lead here would also make sense as a way of addressing the complaint about Nolan’s female characters being sidelined or underwritten. I also think this adaptation would be a great opportunity for Nolan to step fully into the horror genre since this particular premise lends itself well to that approach. Of course all this is just me trying hard to manifest the female-led psychological horror film that I’ve been wanting him to make for a while now...
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Post by pupdurcs on Mar 16, 2024 9:11:03 GMT
A GREAT idea..and one rooted in Pop Culture cultism the way Batman is rooted in Pop Culture mass appeal........not only the inspiration for an Iron Maiden song - um - but a great role for an actor starring...........maybe the most underrated actor of all - time, one of 'em anyway Patrick McGoohan.......whoever gets cast in this is basically getting a slam dunk role unless Nolan fucks it up which I can't imagine.............. Cumberbatch right? If this is Nolan’s next film, I’m sure he’d make the adaptation his own in a way that feels like an original project, like his remake of Insomnia, so I wonder if that could possibly extend to the casting of the lead role... someone unlike McGoohan perhaps, maybe even a female lead, which would be a first for Nolan. No one expected him to cast John David Washington, the first PoC to lead a Nolan film, and while Nolan never spoke openly about this, that decision felt to me at least partially motivated by all the talk from people wanting a black James Bond (so he created his own black Bond to star in his own Bond film). He could make a similar move here and make the lead in The Prisoner a female secret agent (The Prisoner does have a bit of James Bond in its DNA). And since Nolan’s more recent films do seem to, in part, act as responses to various criticisms that have been leveled at his films over the years, casting a female lead here would also make sense as a way of addressing the complaint about Nolan’s female characters being sidelined or underwritten. I also think this adaptation would be a great opportunity for Nolan to step fully into the horror genre since this particular premise lends itself well to that approach. Of course all this is just me trying hard to manifest the female-led psychological horror film that I’ve been wanting him to make for a while now... Interesting that you think Nolan might go for a female lead next. If that's the case, if it's not someone he's already worked with, I hope Nicole Kidman is in the frame, as I know Nolan is a big fan of her performance in Destroyer ( which he did a DGA talk for with director Karyn Kusama)m.soundcloud.com/thedirectorscut/destroyer-with-karyn-kusama-and-christopher-nolan-ep-182Also, as seen in The Others and Stoker, Kidman does masterful work in horror, which ss you say, a remake of The Prisoner may lean into.
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Post by quetee on Mar 16, 2024 19:43:42 GMT
I think he's going to do something on a smaller scale and then do Bond.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Mar 16, 2024 20:15:04 GMT
I think he's going to do something on a smaller scale and then do Bond. Unless Broccoli and Wilson hold off on getting a new Bond for a few more years, I don't see Nolan doing a Bond. And tbh, I don't have that much of an interest in seeing Nolan do Bond. We've already seen him crib from Bond for The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and of course Tenet and the Bond series itself has cribbed from Nolan with Skyfall following the structural template of The Dark Knight. It would feel a bit redundant right now imo.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 17, 2024 4:10:08 GMT
I've already voiced my thoughts on him doing a Bond enough elsewhere, but yeah I don't think it's ever going to happen.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Apr 18, 2024 23:48:04 GMT
According to Jonathan Nolan, Chris was once interested in doing a comedy and told him about it during the same car ride to LA where they first discussed the idea for Memento. Obviously that was a long time ago, so I’m not sure if Nolan would be interested in doing a comedy anymore (especially considering his most recent remarks on the topic were about how difficult it would be), but still interesting. Very curious to know what the idea was...
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