So...what ever happened to this? 
Brave New World
Hell and Gone
I'm wondering the same. Perhaps J. Blakeson pissed off someone in the business? Perhaps people just realized that The Disappearance of Alice Creed sucked major ass, and Jonathan Nolan's script has to pay the price?ryan4butler wrote:So...what ever happened to this?
why is no one financing Hell and Gone. 
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From a junket interview during the release of the prestige 2006;
It would be great if Chris got onboard and got this project back on its feet (after Interstellar)Q: Are you writing anything on your own right now?
JN: Yeah, I'm writing a movie right now for Warner Bros. about the Chicago fire. I grew up in Chicago so it's really been great. It's kind of a revenge story set in the Chicago fire.
Q: Is the revenge against the cow? (laughter)
JN: The cow is alive. (laughter) The cow is anti-Irish propaganda. Our family’s Irish so…When you grow up in Chicago, it's a story that everyone hears. It's Mrs. O'Leary's cow. The idea is it's 1871, right? Chicago is this sort of booming, emerging town sprung out almost over night. And this dumb Irish lady goes out to milk her cow in the middle of the night and she's drunk, of course. The cow knocks over a lantern and burns down the entire city. It's actually not true. The fire started in her barn, but no one has any idea of what actually started it. Definitely not her. There was a bunch of journalists who came in from New York the next day who were looking for a good angle on the fire. They were like 'drunk Irish lady. That's perfect.' Because the Irish were sort of a subclass in Chicago at the time. They were really, really hated and there was a lot of discrimination there so it was a perfect story. The theories about what actually started the fire range from the most likely scenario which is a bunch of little kids smoking cigars in the barn to a meteorite that exploded over the Midwest.
Q: And of course you want it to be the meteorite.
JN: The meteorite is much more cinematic. What's weird is that the same day as the fire in Chicago, there was a fire in Peshtigo, Wisconsin which is about an hour and a half away which killed 3,000 people. No one has ever heard of it. It remains the worst natural disaster in the history of the country. Nobody has ever heard about it because it happened the same day as the Chicago fire.
Q: How many died in the Chicago fire?
JN: 300.
Q: Do we know who is going to be directing that movie yet? Is it just in the early stages?
JN: No, it's still in the pretty early stages. It’s just me. I mean Chris is... I would find it impossible to work without consulting my brother and sort of availing myself of his ideas, but yeah it's just me in a work yard with a couple producers at Warner Brothers.
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Fuck yes it would.Robin wrote:From a junket interview during the release of the prestige 2006;
It would be great if Chris got onboard and got this project back on its feet (after Interstellar)Q: Are you writing anything on your own right now?
JN: Yeah, I'm writing a movie right now for Warner Bros. about the Chicago fire. I grew up in Chicago so it's really been great. It's kind of a revenge story set in the Chicago fire.
Q: Is the revenge against the cow? (laughter)
JN: The cow is alive. (laughter) The cow is anti-Irish propaganda. Our family’s Irish so…When you grow up in Chicago, it's a story that everyone hears. It's Mrs. O'Leary's cow. The idea is it's 1871, right? Chicago is this sort of booming, emerging town sprung out almost over night. And this dumb Irish lady goes out to milk her cow in the middle of the night and she's drunk, of course. The cow knocks over a lantern and burns down the entire city. It's actually not true. The fire started in her barn, but no one has any idea of what actually started it. Definitely not her. There was a bunch of journalists who came in from New York the next day who were looking for a good angle on the fire. They were like 'drunk Irish lady. That's perfect.' Because the Irish were sort of a subclass in Chicago at the time. They were really, really hated and there was a lot of discrimination there so it was a perfect story. The theories about what actually started the fire range from the most likely scenario which is a bunch of little kids smoking cigars in the barn to a meteorite that exploded over the Midwest.
Q: And of course you want it to be the meteorite.
JN: The meteorite is much more cinematic. What's weird is that the same day as the fire in Chicago, there was a fire in Peshtigo, Wisconsin which is about an hour and a half away which killed 3,000 people. No one has ever heard of it. It remains the worst natural disaster in the history of the country. Nobody has ever heard about it because it happened the same day as the Chicago fire.
Q: How many died in the Chicago fire?
JN: 300.
Q: Do we know who is going to be directing that movie yet? Is it just in the early stages?
JN: No, it's still in the pretty early stages. It’s just me. I mean Chris is... I would find it impossible to work without consulting my brother and sort of availing myself of his ideas, but yeah it's just me in a work yard with a couple producers at Warner Brothers.
What if Chris would produce this and it would become Jonathan's directors film debut?
That would kick ass...
That would kick ass...
David emerges from the store slowly. He braces himself against a parked car and then keeps on walking in a nightmarish daze.
WE PULL BACK as David blends in with dozens and dozens of ordinary people, walking on an ordinary street, in an ordinary city.
WE PULL BACK as David blends in with dozens and dozens of ordinary people, walking on an ordinary street, in an ordinary city.
Yup that would be great, Chris needs to launch Jonah too, hopefully either this or Keys to the street would end up getting directed by Jonathan. Can't have and unproduced scripts by Nolan, its very frustrating to think those would never get made.Erik wrote:What if Chris would produce this and it would become Jonathan's directors film debut?
That would kick ass...
:O
That would be awesome too!
Then we would get a project written by Jonathan, directed by Chris (Interstellar) and a project written by Chris and directed by Jonathan (Keys To The Street).
That would be awesome too!
Then we would get a project written by Jonathan, directed by Chris (Interstellar) and a project written by Chris and directed by Jonathan (Keys To The Street).
David emerges from the store slowly. He braces himself against a parked car and then keeps on walking in a nightmarish daze.
WE PULL BACK as David blends in with dozens and dozens of ordinary people, walking on an ordinary street, in an ordinary city.
WE PULL BACK as David blends in with dozens and dozens of ordinary people, walking on an ordinary street, in an ordinary city.
Shame on me but I can't help but think about this after reading Interstellar, somebody's got to leak this.
lol I don't use Twitter much, opened it after a long time and saw J. Blakeson's reply on my tweet. 
Though the tweet is old, still good to hear that it's still in works, also last I heard from Jonah he said the script is over 200 pages and he is cutting it down.
Though the tweet is old, still good to hear that it's still in works, also last I heard from Jonah he said the script is over 200 pages and he is cutting it down.
