Christopher Nolan Leaves The Prisoner

There have been 13 responses to “Christopher Nolan Leaves The Prisoner”

1. DHOPW42
   on August 19, 2009 at 2:23 pm

   Hmmm, what were you implying when you wrote: “Nolan is now free to pursue any project”?;-):-D

2. apw
   on August 19, 2009 at 2:27 pm

   Was The Prisoner ever in the way?

   When he did press for TDK and got asked about it he non-committal about it. I’m guessing he already left the project at that point.

3. George
   on August 19, 2009 at 2:47 pm

   The Prisoner was really the only looming commitment that he had.
   Now there’s nothing to distract him from a third Batman film once Inception is completed.
   And I sort of would rather see him direct his own scripts.

4. DHOPW42
   on August 19, 2009 at 2:53 pm

   “And I sort of would rather see him direct his own scripts.”

   Very, very agreed.

5. teddyb
   on August 19, 2009 at 3:22 pm

   I with apw in thinking this project was never really in the way. It was assumed dead, for Nolan at least, for a year or so now. Inception was the final nail in the coffin IYAM.

   Anyways. Glad this officially frees up his schedule to do other things…

6. Brandon
   on August 19, 2009 at 3:39 pm

   I’m sorry to hear this, because I love the Prisoner and I think that a Nolan-helmed version would have been brilliant. And with D & J Peoples writing it, it seemed to be a film of great potential.

   I hope an equally talented director gets attached and that this doesn’t get stuck in development hell.

   In the end though, I’m excited for Inception and the next Batman…

7. Nicoco
   on August 19, 2009 at 7:35 pm

   I hope after Inception Nolan says : “yeah I”m working in a third Batman film” and no start with his tipica “Wll I don”t know, you know, nothing is for sure” .

8. Eternalist
   on August 19, 2009 at 8:14 pm

   I thinks it’s interesting to note that Nolan “dropped out”. That means that he either found facets of the project undesirable or he did it to deliberatley free-up his schedule (for Batman 3! )

   Quite interesting.

9. apw
   on August 20, 2009 at 12:37 am

   Directors join and leave projects all the time.

   I think he porbably left before TDK even came out.

   I don’t think it has anything to do with Batman 3.

10. dagn96
    on August 20, 2009 at 5:50 am

    YES!! I was worried about TP if Nolan would do it or not

11. Jonny
    on August 21, 2009 at 11:41 am

    I just hope Nolan woks on Batman 3 after Inception.

12. akv1984
    on August 21, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    This is old news. I thought that he left The Prisoner a long time ago when AMC announced that they were making a TV series.

13. Eternalist
    on December 16, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    If you know Chris Nolan, you know that he’s pretty reliable (read: dedicated) about the commitments he makes as a director. So if he WAS attached to The Prisoner, and suddenly detached himself from the project, there would have to be a pretty good reason for him to do so.