Inception News
Posted on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 12:28 am by George
Although Leonardo DiCaprio stayed quiet in regards to the plot of Inception, he did reveal a small bit of intriguing information in a recent interview with Movies.ie. “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…”
The comment could have been made to be intentionally vague, since I would even consider a 135 minute film to be ‘about two hours, give or take’. But what can be taken from this comment is that there is most likely a rough cut of Inception completed, possibly even being screened already.
A two hour length may seem short considering the six months of production and the ensemble cast, but outside of his Batman fims Nolan has kept his running times close to two hours. Memento is 113 minutes in length, Insomnia is 118 minutes, and The Prestige is 130 minutes. And as forum member chee noted, this comically would make Nolan a man of his word. After his second bathroom break during the BD-Live screening of The Dark Knight, Nolan joked that he would make a shorter film next time.
Batman 3 News Rumors
Posted on Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 1:09 pm by TeddyBlass
Ahh yes, it’s that time again. Time for the Batman 3 rumors. And no, this isn’t the rumor to end all rumors like we were hoping for. This rumor (soon to be trumor?) comes from Nikki Finke, the respected Hollywood journalist from Deadline.com. In an article about why Goyer is leaving the TV show he helped create (FlashForward), Nikke sites Batman 3 as one of the reasons:
“Of course, Goyer’s feature career is really heating up, since he co-wrote Batman Begins, and penned the story for The Dark Knight, and is now writing the third Batman installment with Chris Nolan’s brother Jonah. ‘As my feature projects have started ramping up again, I felt I was being pulled in too many directions,’ Goyer said in a statement.”
Perhaps this is something Nikki Finke has been told in confidence, or it’s very possible she could just be speculating. Hopefully we will have more confirmation on the validly of this statement soon. And considering this story is going to be all over the internet this week, I suspect we might. Read the full article over at Deadline.com.
Inception News
Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 8:28 pm by TeddyBlass
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
Inception News
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!]
