I am afraid I absolutely fail as authority on Bollywood - I lack even the tiniest knowledge of the talent Bollywood has to offer, nor can I even guess what Nolan means to achieve with this move. Outside of course giving his production a host of fresh faces - for the uninitiated - and a boost on the Indian market.
One would hope that India plays some role in the film, but we shall see. Nolan has a knack for choosing outstanding actors.
I would certainly say Cillian Murphy was a discovery; his career developed nicely since the Batman films and Inception.
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You donât count Danny Boyle putting him in 28 Days Later 3 years earlier as his start?
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That was certainly when he first hit my radar.
He surely impressed in 28 Days Later. But as a zombie film that probably didnât quite reach as many audiences as the Nolan films, even if he didnât have the lead in those.
From an industry point of view you are surely right; directors and casting agents had him marked for further reference after Boyle gave him that chance.
Imo The excellent Peaky Blinders is the biggest boost to his career. Itâs made him an heroic leading man, opening up a plethora of roles that wouldâve previously been off limits.
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Speculation by some online itâs a âsecret sequelâ to Inception.
TBH I got more Source Code/Groundhog Day vibes of reliving single moments from its trailer, but Iâm speculating over what essentially is JDW walking across a room towards a broken piece of glass twice.
The trailers not online, but was in front of Hobbs and Shaw if youâre curious (H&S was a Fast and Furious movie to its core, but made a fantastic pitch for Idris Elba as a Bond villain)
Thereâs also smart phone recordings being uploaded at an hourly rate to YouTube, as there always is when a trailer is cinema exclusive, but I wouldnât recommend that.
Logo in black;
Logo in white;
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Just took the plunge and although the quality is indeed pants, thereâs so little to the teaser that quality isnât really a significant impediment.
A sequel to Inception? Well, nothing I saw suggests itâs not a sequel. But thatâs probably the strongest statement of connection that can be made. The oxygen mask could indeed be a means per chance to dream, but it could also be just about anything else.
The strongest vibe/association I got is the similarity of the bullet dented glass and the same in the Hannibal Lector stand off between Bond and Blofeld in Spectreâs finale (which also featured in the marketing, forming the SPECTRE octopus).
Putting that similarity together with the Tenet teaserâs onscreen text introducing âA NEW KIND OF MISSIONâ seems an obvious challenge to the bond franchise. The film itself may be highly non-Bond, but in terms of marketing Iâd say Nolan is throwing down the gauntlet.
I wonder if his Eon meetings have in fact led nowhere and this is his Indiana Jones?
Back to Tenet, another vibe it gave was The Dead Zone; an âexpertâ with otherworldly means being utilised by the state (or against the state). Big question the bullet holes seems to be asking the audience was were they made by someone trying to get in, or out of whatever that âcontainerâ was. Of course this may well be clear in full res, but the question did seem intentionally arch.
EDIT: the design of the logo and the fact that it turns on the website emphasising a sense of duplicity is obviously of great significance. This naturally lends to the duplicity of a double agent - someone who is two people. More literally it may suggest something along the lines of clones, or even parallel universes. The latter may seem worldâs away from the spy genre, but just look at the excellent, recently criminally cancelled Starz show Counterpart, in which parallel universes and espionage seemed made for one another.
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Just looked that up, sounds brilliant! J.K.Simmons and Olivia Wilde are always excellent.
I see Justin Marks also wrote the failed pilot âRewindâ another TV series pitch that combined espionage with sci-fi. Clearly an interest of his.
I was going to mention Counterpart, but @odd_jobbies beat me to it.
Given how current events and affairs do have a strong âalternate realityâ taste, how the theme is used from Stehen King to Man In The High Castle, how even physics is now exploring the concept of a multiverse - see Max Tegmarkâs book and quantum computing theory for that - Iâd say the theme is currently just floating about and influenced many different mainstream productions. That Nolan picks it up - again? - is more or less expected.
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Esquire with an article on the âstealthâ Tenet trailer. They can only speculate, as we can, but the opening description of
forcing Sir Michael Caine, a knight of the realm, to talk about tangerines.
made me laugh (though it occurs that Caine has done far stranger things in his career) so i thought Iâd share.
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(fixed the pic 
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Jaws IV springs to mind!!!
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Thereâs a surely room for a whole other thread of odd things Michael Caine has done in filmsâŚ
âŚThe Harry Palmer series is a Harry Saltzman brain child of a spy series, thatâs comfortable on a Bond forum if anything is, and Caine did 5 of them!
Should say anything beyond the original 3 was news to me as of writing this.
For what itâs worth, I never heard anything good about the later films. They may not be the nadir of Caineâs career, but certainly within walking distance.
Caine always had a pragmatic view of such vehicles: as long as they payed he made them, regardless what was required of him. They were work and an actor can never have enough work. Strikes me as sensible.
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The fact the other 4 are almost anonymous would speak in your favour.
Blame it on Rio - pure Michael Caine trash. There is a great game here , the worst Michael Caine movies , there are many
Bullseye. Itâs grim. Although not Roger Mooreâs worst film, so some sort of perverse achievement.
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