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DiCaprio Calls Inception a “High-Octane, Surreal Film”

Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 8:28 pm by TeddyBlass

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Leonardo DiCaprio, star of Inception, was recently interviewed by Inquirer about no longer being the star of “the biggest movie” of all time. After saying very nice things about his experience on Titanic, what he thought of Avatar, and what it was like starring in Shutter Island, he went on to talk about working with Christopher Nolan in Inception.

“I don’t know what I’m allowed to say about Inception” the actor said after chuckling. “I don’t even know what I’m allowed to say about Shutter Island, to be quite honest.” Instead, he talked about the two filmmakers: “Both Chris and Martin are great directors. The material and its complexity are what I’m attracted to. I’m not happy if I don’t have a lot to do. I’ve been lucky to work with people who want to tell stories that hit on different cylinders simultaneously. Shutter Island is definitely that.”

“Chris [is] 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.”

Will anyone figure out what Inception is about? Let’s hope so. Read the rest of the article at Inquirer.net. Thanks to Jake088800 for the tip

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The Movie Preview Critic’s Inception Movie Preview Review

Posted on Saturday, January 30th, 2010 at 12:05 am by AlexHaas

The Movie Preview Critic has released his preview review for Christopher Nolan’s next film, Inception.

The eleven-minute video features insight into “The Carte Blanche” concept that we’ve mentioned on the Nolan Fans Podcast. Meaning, with Christopher Nolan’s huge box office success with The Dark Knight, Warner Bros. has basically let him do whatever the heck he wants with Inception. It really is great to see such a talented director given the amount of budgetary flexibility shown here. We’ve already seen what sort of awesomeness this type of creative freedom can accomplish. (See James Cameron, Avatar).

Be warned. There are a few minor spoilers in this video. Although, it’s nothing that you haven’t heard before if you’ve read other news stories or forum posts here at Nolan Fans. Most of the detailed descriptions in this video are pure speculation. Enjoy!

[Thank you Chee for posting this on the forums!]

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Inception’s First Official Production Still

Posted on Sunday, January 17th, 2010 at 2:37 pm by George

Although hundreds of unofficial production stills have hit the web since filming began, Warner Bros. has just released the first official still for Christopher Nolan’s Inception. It appears to be one of the scenes set in Tokyo, with DiCaprio’s Cobb dressed very closely to one of the shots in the most recent trailer where he attaches a silencer to a pistol while making his way through a kitchen.

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Inception is Nolan’s “Biggest Challenge”

Posted on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 3:35 pm by George

Christopher_NolanWith a budget rumored to be around $200 million, a six month production in six countries, and an all-star cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, it came as little surprise when Christopher Nolan told the Los Angeles Times that Inception “is the biggest challenge I’ve taken on to this point.”  But what exactly is Inception? Even after two trailers filled with folding cities, trains crashing through crowded streets, characters being submerged into tubs of water, and plenty of shifting hallways, details still remain foggy. “Is it an international thriller? A story of madness and lost love? Or Hollywood’s very first metaphysical heist movie?” According to Nolan, Inception is “all of the above.”

“I grew up watching James Bond films and loving those and watching spy movies with their globetrotting sensibility,” said Nolan. “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.”

After the worldwide success of The Dark Knight, developing a project of this magnitude seemed a logical step.  But Producer Emma Thomas, Nolan’s wife, revealed that this was not necessarily the case with Inception. “It’s something that we had been talking about on and off for seven or eight years,” Emma explained.  ”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.”

With The Dark Knight, Nolan aimed to create a film larger in scale than he had done before, a trend that continues with Inception.  “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.”

In six months we’ll be able to see if all of Nolan’s efforts paid off to deliver a blockbuster film that truly feels personal. Inception stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine.  It opens in both standard and IMAX theaters July 16th.

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NolanFans.com: Year Two

Posted on Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 at 11:03 pm by TeddyBlass

There’s a birthday to celebrate today… NolanFans.com’s birthday in fact! A year ago today, Alex and I set off on a journey to build the biggest and best fan community for director Christopher Nolan. We’ve accomplished a lot this year, and we are very thankful for all of you; the fans who’ve made a lot of it possible! Our community here continues to grow at great rates every week.

Over the past year we have followed the production of Nolan’s next motion picture, Inception. We added hundreds of photos from its production and filming, and we also added extensive screenshot galleries from all of Nolan’s films. We added downloadable versions of the screenplays for his films. We launched an audio podcast that has flourished into a neat project that now includes video live-streaming. We launched a YouTube channel with HD trailers, tv spots and other various Nolan related videos. And that’s not all.

Over the next year we hope to grow, and improve. Our goal is to continually raise the bar. To celebrate year two of NolanFans.com we launched a brand new design and layout. We are always looking for ways to improve the website, its content and its functionality. So take a look around. Let us know what you think. We are going to be adding new content and whatnot over the next couple weeks, so keep your eyes peeled.

Thanks for everything, everybody! Cake will be served shortly. ;)

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